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KITCHEN GARDEN. 



CELERY, 



The celery seed so war early will now have pro- 

 duced plants fit to plant into trenches to blanch. Make 

 trenches in g-ood ground, a foot wide, three feet 

 apart, a spade deep; lay the earth on each side of the 

 trenches and dig their bottoms, leaving them level ; 

 if the ground require it, put some rotten dung in the 

 bottom of the trenches, and dig it in six inches deep. 

 Place the plants along the trenches, upright, abnut six 

 inches apart, and water them ; in fonr or five weeks 

 draw earth to each side^f the plants, breaking it fine ; 

 do this in dr}^ weather, and be careful not to bury the 

 hearts ; repeat the earthing once in ten days till the 

 " plants are fit for use. 



CAULIFLOWERS. 



Those sown in May may be pricked out into nur 

 sery beds, three inches apart ; water theui frequent- 

 ly. Next month they will be fit to transplant into 

 the ground where they are to come to perfection. 

 Those caulifiow^ers which begin to iiower, must have 

 the large leaves broken over the flowers to save 

 them from the sun beams, and have a couple of 

 plentiful waterings. Some of the best caulidowers 

 that stood the winter, having large white cic?e he^.ds, 

 must be left for seed, which will be fit to gadier 

 about September. Support the seed plants Vvith sticks, 

 to w^hich tie them. 



BEETS. 



Early this month clear your beets from weeds, and 

 where they stand too close cut them out to stand ten 

 or twelve inches asunder, or drav%^ the small plants 

 and plant them in good ground at the same distance 

 from each other. 



