Outside Cellars 



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year, and the subsequent covering will hold them in place. 

 At intervals of ten or twelve feet, two or three boards are 

 left without nailing to allow of an entrance, and the place 

 is marked by a stake 



driven into the ground. 

 These pits or tempo- 

 rary cellars are made 

 late in autumn, and 

 until severe freezing 

 weather comes the pro- 

 tection of boards is suf- 

 ficient ; but as winter 242. interior of a good storage pit. 



approaches, straw, grass or other litter is thrown over 

 the roof, and subsequently manure or earth is added. In 

 pits of this character, that contain a large body of air, 



very uniform conditions 

 are secured. In them 

 celery, leek and brussels 

 sprouts, and even cabbage, 

 may be set compactly in 

 rows. The plants often 

 make a root-hold in the 

 soil, and therefore do not 

 shrivel and are not so 

 likely to rot as those 

 thrown in loose. 



Pits of this kind are 

 very useful for the stor- 

 In them the celery grows 

 If, however, it is 



The sill and roof construction. 



ing of late or winter celery, 

 somewhat, . and it blanches by spring 

 desired to keep celery only a short time, and particularly 



