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2. New Silver Giant. — This sort is much esteemed on ac- 
count of its large size, and its white, round, crispy, and solid 
stalks. 
3. Large Manc 7 ies(er Bed. — This variety also grows to a 
large size, differs but slightly from the preceding except in 
color. 
Cultivation. — The seed may be sown in the Middle and 
Northern States, with slight forcing, from March until the first 
or second week in May. It may be sown in drills six inches 
apart, in a hot bed or a rich mellow border, after the manner 
of cabbage seed, watering moderately in dry weather, both be- 
fore and after it is up. As soon as the plants are two or three 
inches high, they may be transplanted into a nursery, three or 
four inches apart, in a sunny situation, into temporary beds 
formed of old hot-bed clung or well-rotted stable manure, mixed 
with one fourth of its bulk of finely pulverized earth. These 
beds should be laid six or seven inches thick on a plot of 
ground having a surface made hard by compression, in order 
to prevent the pushing of tap rools, and thereby prevent the 
celery from running to seed the following spring. The nurs- 
ling plants should be watered daily until they have taken firm 
root, and as often afterwards as the dryness of the weather 
may require. 
As soon as the plants have acquired a height of six or eight 
inches, they may be removed in monthly succession from June 
till September, into a soil rather moist and rich in vegetable 
mould, but not rank from new or unfermented dung. Pre- 
vious to the last transplanting, the ground should be tho- 
roughly worked with the spade or plough, to a depth of 
twelve to eighteen inches, and then be divided into trenches 
twelve inches deep, eighteen inches wide, and four feet apart 
from centre to centre. The trenches should next be filled nine 
inches deep, with a compost of well-rotted dung, mixed with' 
one fourth of its bulk of strong sandy loam. The plants 
should then be taken from the nursery beds, with as much soil 
as will conveniently adhere to their roots, and after removing 
the side shoots from the stoms, they may be planted nine or 
ten inches apart in the centre 'of each trench, watering them as 
often as the weather may require, until they are ready to 
earth up. 
As the plants in the trenches rise from ten to fifteen inches 
nigh, commence the operation of " earthing up " for blanch- 
