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When your Plants have advanced 

 a confiderable Height above the 

 Trenches, and all the Earth, which 

 was laid on the Sides thereof, hath 

 been employed in earthing them up ; 

 you muft then make ufe of a Spade 

 to dig up the Earth between the 

 Trenches, which muft alfo be made 

 ufe of for the fame Parpofe, conti- 

 nuing from time to time to earth it 

 up, until it is fit for Ufe. 



The firft of your planting out will, 

 perhaps, be fit for Ufe by the Be- 

 ginning of July ; and fo this will be 

 fucceeded by the after Plantations, 

 and, if rightly managed, will con- 

 tinue till April ; but you mould ob- 

 ferve, after the fecond or third plant- 

 ing out, to plant the After crop in 

 a drier Soil, to prevent its being 

 rotted with too much Wet in Win- 

 ter ; and alfo, if the Weather mould 

 prove extreme fharp, you will do 

 well to cover your Ridges of Celery 

 with fome Peas-haulm, or fome fuch 

 light Covering, which will admit 

 the Air to the Plants ; for if they are 

 covered too clofe, they will be very 

 fubject to rot : by this means you 

 may preferve your Celery in Seafon 

 a long time ; but you muft remem- 

 ber to take off the Covering when- 

 ever the Weather will permit, other- 

 wife it will be apt to caufe the Ce- 

 lery to pipe, and run to Seed. The 

 Celery, when fully blanch'd, will not 

 continue good above three Weeks 

 or a Month before it will rot or pipe : 

 therefore, in order to continue it 

 good, you fhould have, at lead, fix 

 or feven different Seafons of plant- 

 ing ; fo that if it be only intended 

 to fupply a Family, there need not 

 be much planted at each time ; but 

 this muft be proportioned according 

 to the Quantity required. 



The other Sort of Celery, which 

 is commonly called Celeriac, is to 

 be managed in the fame manner as 



Vol. I. 



is directed for the Italian Celery, ex- 

 cepting that this mould be planted, 

 upon the level Ground, or in very 

 mallow Drills ; for this Plant fel- 

 dom grows above eight or ten Inches 

 high, fo requires but little earthing 

 up ; the great Excellence of this be- 

 ing in the Size of the Root, which 

 is often as large as ordinary Tur- 

 neps. It fhould be fown about the 

 Middle of March, upon a rich Bor- 

 der of Earth ; and, in dry Weather, 

 conftantly watered ; otherwife the 

 Seeds will not grow : when the Plants 

 are large enough to tranfplant out, 

 they mould be placed 18 Inches 

 afunder, Row from Row, and the 

 Plants fix or eight Inches diftant in 

 the Rows ; the Ground muft be care- 

 fully kept clean fiom Weeds ; but 

 this Sort will require but one earth- 

 ing up, which mould not be per- 

 formed until the Roots are nearly 

 grown : both thefe Sorts of Celery 

 delight in a light moift Soil, where 

 they will grow to a much larger Size, 

 and be fweeter or tenderer than on a 

 poor or dry Ground. 



The belt Method to fave this 

 Seed, is to make choice of fome 

 long good Roots of Celery that have 

 not been too much blanch'd, and 

 plant them at about a Foot afunder 

 in a moift Soil, early in the Spring ; 

 and when they run up to Seed, keep 

 them fupported with Stakes, to pre- 

 vent their being broken down with 

 the Wind : and in July, when this 

 Seed begins to be formed, if the Sea- 

 fon fhould prove very dry, it will be 

 proper to give it a little Water, 

 which will greatly help its produce- 

 ing good Seeds. In Augujl thefe 

 Seeds will be ripe, at which time it 

 mould be cut up, in a dry time, and 

 fpread upon Cloths in the Sun to 

 dry j then beat out the Seeds, and 

 preferve it dry in Bngs for Ufe. 



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