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tasks the brain of the gardener as well as his muscle ; 

 or, in other words, we see physical strength, in a 

 properly-managed market-garden, becoming subser- 

 vient to systematic and maturely developed plans. 



The time of planting Celery varies according to 

 the disposition to be made of the crop, from the 

 20th of June to the 15th of August. Planted in 

 rich ground before the 20th of July, it will, under 

 favorable circumstances, be large enough to be 

 banked, bleached, and sold by the latter part of 

 October and through the month of November. 



Celery will succeed best when planted in a deep, 

 rich loam, which has been well pulverized previously. 



Sowing the Seed. — The seed of Celery should 

 be sown in the open ground, in a sheltered border, 

 as early in April as the soil is dry enough to be 

 worked. Before sowing, the seed-bed should have 

 a heavy dressing of well-rotted barn-yard manure, 

 scattered evenly over the surface and forked under ; 

 then raked, removing any hard lumps of soil, stones, 

 &c., &c., leaving the ground loose and finely pulver- 

 ized. Open shallow drills with the marker one foot 

 apart ; sow the seed thinly in the drills by hand, and 

 cover the seed by raking the surface with a wooden 

 rake, drawing it in the line of the drills. "We sow 

 some Kadish seed sparsely in the drills at the time 

 of sowing the Celery-seed. The Radish will germi- 

 nate in a few days, showing the line of the rows, 

 when a scuffle-hoe can be used between them, before 

 the weeds start to grow. If the weeds get ahead, 

 the labor will be increased tenfold. When the plants 

 are three or four inches high, cut off the tops ; this 



