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from the trenches, and the afternoon and evening to 

 trimming and bunching. 



When the day's work is finished, the bunches are 

 counted and carefully placed in chests made express- 

 ly for the purpose, and forwarded to market. 



Profits. — Under the former laborious and crude 

 method of cultivating Celery, there was but little 

 profit attached to the crop. It cost, then, from one 

 to one and a half cents a root to grow it ; this, with 

 the large percentage of loss from rotting during the 

 Winter, left but a small margin for profit. The plan 

 now in general use among gardeners in New Jersey 

 reduces the expense to a half or three-quarters of a 

 cent a root ; and in connection with this, by the im- 

 proved method for keeping it through the Winter, 

 the profits are decidedly increased. When Celery 

 is planted at the distances named, there can be grown 

 on an acre about twenty-six thousand roots. It rarely 

 happens that more than twenty thousand of these 

 are of full size, and worth two and a half cents a 

 root, which would give five hundred dollars for the 

 acre. The balance of the small stocks, tied in round 

 bunches and sold at low prices, would add twenty or 

 thirty dollars to the above amount. 



This looks like a large sum — and it would be, if 

 there were no losses nor heavy exjDenses in produc- 

 ing the crop ; but it must be marked down as one 

 of the most expensive and troublesome with which 

 tlie market-gardener has to deal. 



Vaeieties. — Among the many changes that have 

 been introduced in the culture of Celery for market, 

 there is none more apparent than the sudden somer- 



