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the same as that directed for the other sorts, with the ex- 

 ception that we are saved the trouble of high "banking." 

 Last season a few thousand bunches were sold for the first 

 time in the New York markets, and were quickly disposed 

 of at nearly double the price of the ordinary sorts of the 

 same size. It was purchased exclusively by the purveyors 

 for the leading hotels, and, from its beautiful appearance, 

 created an interest in this vegetable which never had been 

 shown before. Its only drawback, as I have said, is that, 

 from its tenderness, it will not keep as well into late win- 

 ter as the green sorts; but as it can be had in perfection 

 through the Christmas holidays, the time when Celery is 

 in greater demand than at any other season, if will with- 

 out doubt at once be largely grown, and grown to supply 

 the holiday demand, to the exclusion of all other kinds. 



