THE MANSE GARDEN. 



to be well thinned as the seedlings advance. As the 

 plants, on reaching the hard substratum, are prevented 

 from making long taproots, they send out numerous 

 fibres, a mode of growth which checks the disposition 

 to run to seed ; and by this method of rearing they 

 also become strong enough, without transplanting, 

 for being at once removed to the trenches. 



These are made in June, for receiving the plants 

 when they have attained to the thickness of a writing 

 quill. The soil should be rich, at least two feet deep 

 of good mould. The trenches are cut one foot in 

 depth, something more in width, and three feet from 

 each other. High ridges, of course, rise between. 

 Into the bottom of each trench a good supply of old 

 manure must be dug. Peatmoss is very congenial 

 if mixed with dung a year before and prepared by 

 several turnings. This trouble will be well repaid 

 by the next crop of carrots. On the bottom of the 

 trench, in a single row, dibble the celery plants five 

 or six inches apart, having previously cropped any 

 long roots and also the leaves. Watering is neces- 

 sary for a few days in dry weather. As the plants 

 advance the earth is drawn towards them, the inter- 

 vening mounds become deep furrows, and the celery 

 drill a high ridge. After the last earthing up about 

 the beginning of winter, the soil must be beat into 

 the shape of a roof, surmounted only by the leaves, 

 to prevent the rains from rotting the stems and roots 

 of the plants. It is by these successive coverings 

 that the celery is produced in long leafstalks, and 

 also thoroughly blanched a quality without which 

 it is not eatable. 



Chives A small mild species of onion. It is 

 perennial, and grows wild in some parts of the 



