84 FAEM-GARDEXING AND SEED-GEOWING. 



Storing for Market. Celery will not be injured by 

 light frosts, but heavy freezing is very injurious, and it is 

 well to begin the storing of this crop in good season. 

 About the first of November the first may be put away, 

 and small lots at intervals, completing the whole by the 

 first of December. The object of this is to have it market- 

 able in succession, the first stored usually being the first 

 blanched, and so on. Celery in storing should only be 

 handled when dry, and never put away while it is frozen. 

 It sometimes happens at the season for storing that the 

 nights are very frosty, thus preventing handling early the 

 following day. To overcome this, dig the roots in the 

 afternoon ; stack them along the trench, tops outside, and 

 cover with mats or cloths, and they may be put in the 

 trenches as early as convenient the next morning. 



Dig a trench the width of the spade as deep as the 

 celery is high, and any length required ; run a plow on 

 each side of the rows, and with a spade carefully lift the 

 plants; place them perpendicularly in the trench, stowing 

 them compactly ; afterwards, at intervals, press fine earth 

 down beside and up to the tops of the leaves, and by cold 

 weather have the whole ridge formed, the more readily to 

 carry away the water. The covering of the trench should 

 be gradual, to prevent heating, but when complete and 

 the ground is frozen over, put on sufficient coarse manure 

 to prevent severe^ freezing ; this can be readily removed, 

 and the roots quite easily taken out when wanted. 



Seed, Selections should be made according to the 

 peculiar points of the variety, the object being to secure 

 such as are perfectly solid in the stems, and with an 

 abundance of solid heart-leaves. 



The storing is the same as when designed for market, 

 but as it must be kept until quite late in the spring it is 

 an object to keep it dry, and this can be done in a great 

 measure by nailing common boards together in the shape 

 of a V, and inverting them over the trench, forming a 



