2/6 Boston-Market Celery. 



which, as fairly as to any other pear, may be applied the praise which he 

 lavished on the Queen of the Low Countries, a far inferior variety, is not 

 improbably a seedling of his ; nor that the Urbaniste was gained by one 

 of his friends and disciples. Nor would I overlook the faith and zeal 

 with wdiich he persevered in an experiment occupying a period of time that 

 would have appalled an ordinary man, and encountered difficulties and 

 obstacles that might well have discouraged him. Still more do we owe him 

 for the effect which his attempt — the first ever made to produce new varie- 

 ties upon scientific principles — has had in stimulating inquiry into those 

 principles, and causing the production by others of many of our most 

 valuable fruits. 



BOSTON-MARKET CELERY. 



By C. N. Brackett, Chairman Vegetable Committee of Mass. Hort. See. 



This is considered one of the finest varieties of this highly-esteemed 

 vegetable grown, and is the established favorite with the celery-growers in 

 this vicinity, where large quantities are grown for the supply of the Boston 

 market. 



The specimen from which our illustration was drawn was grown by Mr. 

 Andrew F. Allen of Arlington, Mass., taken from his celery-pit Jan. i6 ; 

 and, for this season of the year, a finer specimen is rarely seen ; each sep- 

 arate stalk perfectly blanched, with the leaves at the extremities as fresh 

 and green as from a plant taken from the ground in September. 



This variety is of medium size, remarkably hardy, with the offsets or 

 side-shoots more numerous than in most varieties ; blanches very easily 

 and quickly, and, when well grown and properly blanched, is of a pure 

 white color, crisp, brittle, solid, and entirely free from the least sponginess 

 or hollowness ; of a mild, pleasant flavor, unsurpassed in this particular 

 by any other variety. 



