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New. Principles of Gardewing. 
after that a third, gc. The Trenches being thus open’d, ‘twill 
not be amifs if in the bottom of every Trench, you prick in 
a itolerable good ‘Coat of well rotted Horfe-dung, ‘and e{peci- 
ally if your Land is poor, ’twill greatly add to the Growth of 
your Sellery. 
The Trenches being thus prepared ready for planting, take 
an old Knife or piece of a Sythe, and cut out the Plants, put- 
ting them into a fhallow Basket with Care, that you do: not 
knock off the Earth from their Roots, and plant them in the 
bottom of the Trenches, at about fix or feven Inches apart. 
Having firft pruned their Heads to about five or fix Inches in 
length. 
Some are fo curious as to tye up their Leaves together with 
a {mall piece of Baft, that they may not, when a little flag’d 
at firft removing, lie down upon the Ground. 
After your Plantation is ended, be fure to give them a very 
good Watering, and indeed at all other Times, when the Earth 
is dry. : | 
When your Plantation is about nine or ten Inches in height, 
you muft earth them up within four or five Inches of the top, 
and fo continue during all the time of their Growth. | 
About fix or feven Wecks after earthing up, they will be 
whiten’d, that is, what we call blanch’d, and are then fit for the 
Table. 
To have a plentiful Supply of Sellery, ’tis beft to fow and 
raife Plantations at different Times, about one Month after 
the other, by which Means we may be well furnifl’d through- 
out theewholei Mearjises eou2tu 3 
The mof grofs or rank ftrong Roots are more fit for 
Soup, than for Sallets; therefore I advife that the midling 
fized Sellery be chofen for Sallets with their fmall Suckers, 
which break out from the fides of their Roots. 
I have’ feen fome Gardiners, who have been very curious in 
the fplitting of the blanched Leaves of Sellery with a Pin, which 
being afterwards thrown into clean cold Water curl themfelves 
up, and make a very agreeable Figure, when weli difpofed 
of amongft the other Sorts of Sallet Herbs. 
The number of Roots eaten in a Sallet is generally about 
five or fix, when of other Kinds there is but a Pugil of each, 
viz. as much as one commonly takes up between his two Fin- 
gers and Thumb, Scllery 
