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to gather in October or November. Carrols may 

 be preserved by being buried in sand or in a cellar ; 

 but they must be secured against frost as soon as 

 taken from the ground, not being as hardy as the 

 ruta-baga, but more so tlian the beet. From four 

 to eight hundred bushels may be expected from an 



CORN SALAD. — Laudcs Lettuce. Valeriana Locusta. 



This plant is called Corn Salad in England, from 

 its growing wild in cornfields, or rather grainfields, 

 in that country ; and, being sufficiently hardy to en- 

 dure the winter, is productive of considerable mis- 

 chief where it abounds. It is cultivated as a winter 

 salad or for early spring use. It may be sown in 

 August or September, in drills six inches apart, the 

 plants kept clean of weeds, and in very severe weath- 

 er have a slight covering of straw thrown over them. 

 We would hint to those who attempt its culture 

 that it should be rigidly confined to the garden, as 

 it may otherwise add another pest to our fields : as 

 'jnwelcome a guest as the Canada thistle proved to 

 France, when introduced by the Jesuits as an orna- 

 mental plant into the flower-gardens of Paris. 



CELERY. Apium Gravcolens. 

 The seed of this plant may be sown from the first 

 lo the middle of April, cither broadcast or in drills. 

 If broadcast, let the bed be beat smooth and even 

 with a spade after the seed is sown, and then a 

 quarter of an inch of fine earth sifted over it. If in 

 drills, let it be sown six inches apart and half an 

 inch deep. The plants are put out in May into a 

 nursery bed, three or four inches apart, and from 

 this those for fall use must be transplanted to the 

 trenches in July, and those for winter use in the be- 

 ginning of August. To describe the manner of after- 

 cultivation would require more space than can be 

 afford«?d here, and for the processes of trenching, 



