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X. On the Cultivation of Celery. By Mr. Daniel Judd, 

 F. H. S. Gardener to Charles Campbell, Esq. at 

 Edmonton. 



Read February 3, 1818. 



1 h e Celery, which I exhibited, in the winter, to the Horti- 

 cultural Society, having been approved of, and considered 

 to possess more than ordinary merit, I beg leave to offer the 

 following account of my method of cultivating it, which 

 differs, in some points, from the usual practice. 



The seed is sown about the middle of January, in a warm 

 situation, on a very rich piece of ground, and is well protected, 

 from the inclemency of the weather, by mats, at night. 

 When the plants are from two to three inches high, they are 

 pricked out into the nursery bed ; and as I have found them 

 much injured in their future growth, if the fibres of their 

 roots become at all dry, I immerse them, when I draw them 

 from the seed bed, in a little water, placed in a garden pan, 

 so that they remain quite moist, whilst out of ground. The 

 plants remain in the nursery bed, till they are fit for the final 

 removal, being kept clear from weeds, and watered occa- 

 sionally ; but I do not consider them as fit to be transplanted, 

 until they become very strong. 



My ground for the crop is prepared by being trenched, 

 two spades deep, mixing with it, in the operation, a good 

 dressing of well reduced dung, from the old forcing beds ; I 

 give it a second trenching, that the dung may be the better 



