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still persisted in for the growing of Celery are a mistake, 

 the continued use of the tall growing and coarse varieties 

 we believe to be even a far greater one. The kinds that 

 are offered in European catalogues are many, but in the 

 whole list there are but few that are desirable for the 

 market gardener or 

 for private gardens. 

 The climate of Eng- 

 land is much more fa- 

 vorable to the growth 

 of Celery than that 

 of our country, and 

 every year new varie- 

 ties are offered there, 

 of which only now 

 and then one proves 

 of permanent value, 

 but with the majority 

 the differences are 

 mainly in the name 

 The following kinds, 

 some of them of very 

 recent introduction, 

 are great improve- 

 ments on the sorts 

 grown a dozen years 

 ago: 



Henderson's Golden 

 Dwarf. (See figure 

 30.) This is now the, 



leading variety, not only around New York, but in nearly 

 all parts of the country. In the great Celery-growing 

 district of Kalamazoo, Michigan, it is the variety that is 

 planted almost exclusively. In size and habit of growth 

 it is much the same as the Half Dwarf and Dwarf White 

 kinds, except that when blanched, the heart is of a waxy 



Fig. 36. HENDERSON'S GOLDEN DWARF 

 CELEB?. 



