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tho* it be from the fame nurfcry bed 5 

 but the largeft plants Ihould be taken 

 firft, and after them the next fize, and 

 fo to the laft ; for this hundred yards 

 running of fcllery fhould be planted at 

 leaft three or four different times, a 

 part of it once every week or ten days, 

 by which means the fellery, which is of 

 its own nature too apt to run to feed 

 after it is planted, will come one row 

 after another. 



Watering of fellery is likewife of great of water- 

 fervice to it 5 in the firft place, making ^^^^ 

 it grow grofs and great, and confequent- ^"^^ 

 ly fhort and good 5 and in the fecond, 

 as it keeps it the longer from running 

 to feed. We have two kinds of this 

 fellery, which undoubtedly both came 

 from Italy-, but the laft is the beft kind;, 

 cfpecially for the firft crop, and grows 

 in a pretty manner, and is therefore calFd 

 the Italian fellery 5 the other is a native, 

 at leaft now made a dennifon of that 

 climate. 



Sellery will whiten in three weeks 

 time after it is fo earthed up $ at which 

 time you will, I think, have one of the 

 beft produces of the garden, and that 

 you may enjoy it the longer, as foon as 



