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ing abruptly at the bottom ; skin and flesh orange yellow; 

 foliage small. 



Long Orange, This is the universal favorite in this 

 country for marketing or feeding. Root long and taper- 

 ing ; skin and flesh orange-yellow ; foliage strong. 



CELERY. 



This with market - gardeners especially those about 

 New York is one of the main crops, and hundreds of 

 thousands of roots are annually grown. It is not a very 

 good article for shipping as usually prepared for market, 

 but considerable quantities are shipped as taken from the 

 ground. 



Soil and Preparation. Celery will do well in any soil 

 between sand and clay, provided it is made very rich and 

 thoroughly worked. 



It is grown by market-gardeners as a second crop, after 

 cabbages, onions, etc., which are always very heavily 

 manured in the spring, and enough manure is left in the 

 soil to bring through the crop of celery, so that it is 

 planted without further manuring ; and in fact, applica- 

 tions of manure immediately preceding this crop have a 

 tendency to cause the leaves to rust, damaging and even 

 destroying the celery for marketing. The method of 

 growing celery at the present time is greatly simplified 

 over the old style. Then, deep trenches were dug out, 

 manure spaded in, and much labor bestowed, uselessly, as 

 a comparison with the modern plan will show. After the 

 first crop is removed, the land should be cleared of all 

 weeds and refuse, deeply plowed, harrowed fine, and 

 smoothed off, and rows made with the marker three feet 

 apart for the dwarf, and four feet for the larger kinds. 

 These rows should be sunk an inch or two, and made even 

 by the face of a hoe-blade drawn along, thus leaving a 

 broad and level surface to receive the plants. 



