376 KITCHEN GARDEN DISPLAYED. 



Spring, in February, and March, give tKe 

 final earthing, they will continue good till 

 May without piping or Ihooting for feed. 



In taking up full-grown celery for ufe, 

 begin at one end of the rows, dig away the 

 earth clean down to the roots, which then 

 loofen with the fpade, that the plants may be 

 readily drawn up without breaking the ilalks, 

 — of which all the blanched or whitened parts 

 are good for the feveral ufcs required, alfo 

 theflefhy part of the roots. 



The celeriac, or turnep-rooted celery, dif- 

 ferent from the others in being of a lower or 

 dwarfilh fpreading growth, with a large flelhy 

 root, fwelling like a turnep, is cultivated 

 principally for that part, and is raifed froni 

 feed as the other forts ; fow the feed ia 

 March, April, and May, in beds of rich 

 earth ; fonjie pricked in beds for a month, 

 then the whole tranfplanted finally in June, 

 July, Augull, &c. not in deep trenches, a$ 

 in the upright celery; but dig the ground, 

 then with the corner of an hoe, draw drilli 

 two or three inches deep, and two feet afun- 

 der ; plant ^ row of the celeriac in each, five 

 or fix inches apart, and watered ; and when pf 

 advanced growth, and the root fwelled large, 

 hoe up fome earth thereto on both fides of the 

 row to blanch them white and tender ; then 

 may be ufed for the fame purpofes as the 

 other celery, or to flice to eat wilh vinegar, 

 &c. 



To fave celery feed, either leave in the 

 Spring fojme rows of ^ood plants the leaft 



blanchedr 



