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following in about four weeks. Giant Pascal is 

 a large celery and one of the very best flavoured 

 varieties grown. It will be ready for use about 

 December I. The late variety, New Rose, can 

 be kept in trenches until May. Have the rows of 

 Giant Pascal and New Rose from six to eight feet 

 apart, so that there may be sufficient earth to pro- 

 tect them during the winter. 



As fast as these two late varieties grow, bank 

 them up, always doing it when the earth and the 

 celery are dry, otherwise it is liable to cause the 

 heart to rot. When the mercury indicates a tem- 

 perature of 22, it is time to put on the winter 

 covering. This is done by placing boards as de- 

 scribed for White Plume. The boards should 

 reach to within three inches of the tops of the celery; 

 then take two boards nailed together like a trough, 

 with cleats projecting two inches over the sides, 

 and place them on top of the celery. This forms 

 a sort of box with a lid. Bank the earth up to 

 the top of the boards, with a layer of leaves about 

 a foot thick and a sufficient quantity of stable 

 manure to keep the leaves from blowing away. 

 Celery protected in this way keeps to perfection, 

 and will have that rich nutty flavour so often de- 

 sired and seldom had, and it may be dug any day 

 during the winter. 



Level cultivation is practised by a number of 

 growers, but I have always found celery to do better 

 when planted in trenches, as I believe the roots 

 remain in a cooler condition. 



CAULIFLOWER Sow March I, and for sue- 



