V. CELERY. 



glass j and, that space will contain a sufficiency of plants 

 for any garden however large. The plants come up very 

 much like parsley, and, when small, are hardly distin- 

 guished from young parsley plants. As soon as they 

 have two rough leaves, the glass may be taken off, and 

 they may be exposed to the air. About six trenches of 

 celery, running across one of the plats, from North to 

 South, would give about 600 roots ; and, as it is not 

 in use for much more than about a hundred days of the 

 year, here would be six roots for every day, which is 

 much more than any family could want. When the 

 plants get to have about four or five rough leaves, they 

 ought to be pricked out upon a little bed of very fine 

 earth, by the means of a little pointed stick ; and they 

 ought to stand in that bed at about four inches apart, 

 having their roots nicely and closely pressed into the 

 ground. This operation would take place by the middle 

 of May, perhaps, and here the plants would attain a con- 

 siderable size by the month of July, which, a little earlier 

 or a little later, is the time for putting them out into 

 trenches. Knowing the number of plants that you 

 would want, you need prick out no more than that 

 number j but, if you were to put out a thousand instead 

 of six hundred, you might have some to give to a neigh- 

 bour whose sowing might happen to have failed j and 

 this, observe, is a thing by no means to be overlooked j 

 for, you will be a lucky gardener, indeed, if you never 

 stand in need of like assistance from others j and this is 

 one of the great pleasures of gardening, that one has 

 almost always something to give away from one's super- 

 abundance j and here the gift is accompanied with no 

 ostentation on the one side, and without it being 



