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rust or blast ? How can it be preserved for winter use 1 Any 

 part or all information will be of value to many country garden- 

 ers." 



Mr. Paine thinks a perfect remedy would be worth $25 to him, 

 and he thinks as much each to many other persons. 



Mr. Pardee — I trieci, one year, seven sorts of celery, and found 

 Cole's superb celery the best of all; it grows small, and of a pink 

 color, but it is very superior. The seed is now common ; it ori- 

 ginated in England. Seymour's new solid celery is white, and 

 also a very excellent sort. 



Mr. Gore, of New Jersey — My mode of raising celery is this : I 

 dig a trench twelve or fourteen inches deep to set the plants in, 

 and always manure with guano or phosphate. I set a board upon 

 each side of the row, so that no dirt can get into the heart of the 

 plant when I commence earthing up, and keep them there until 

 I get my trench filled as high as the surface of the ground. The 

 soil is a sandy loam. I am very successful, and produce it very 

 fine. I cover the plants with boards in winter, and dig out from 

 one eud of the row as I want it. It should be carefully earthed 

 up every day. The most essential thing in raising celery is to 

 blanch it well. 



Andrew Fuller, of Brooklyn — Seymour's celery is the best of 

 all that I have ever grown, as well for my own eating as for sale 

 as a market gardener. I have raised a good deal of celery in 

 various places — the best on rich mucky land, near Milwaukee. 

 I prefer guano for manure. 



T. W. Field — The manure mostly in use among the market 

 gardeners, is well decomposed, composted manure and guano. 



Wm. Lawton — I am glad that this subject has been introduced, 

 since the proper cultivation of celery is a very important branch 

 of business. I notice the gardeners about here do not use boards, 

 but they are very careful about earthing up the plants every day 

 when they are dry. 



Mr. Meigs — I have raised celery with success forty years. 

 The plant loves shade, and must have it when young. I choose 

 such a situation as will be shaded at mid-day, as the north side 

 of a building, or in the shade of a tvee, for the best location for a 

 celery plant b::d. 



