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the amateur’s kitchen garden. 
depth of winter, planted on these gently warm beds towards 
the end of March, and protected from frosts by glass and 
other covering, soon become strong and well rooted, and are 
moved with much facility to their proper situations when the 
planting season has arrived. After the broccoli has been 
removed the ridges are also available for crops of such 
vegetables as spinach, lettuce, peas, radishes, &c., the only 
conditions necessary being that they should be cleared from 
the ground previous to earthing the successional crops of 
celery as they require it. 
The diagram, representing a course of celery-culture, will 
probably convey a more accurate idea of the system pursued 
than any mere description, however elaborate. 
The celery seed is sown in the first and last weeks of 
February, the second week in March, and finally in the first 
week in April ; the first two crops are raised in well-drained 
fourteen-inch pots, placed near the glass in a hotbed, or other 
warm situation. When the plants are sufficiently large, they 
are pricked out on a somewhat spent hotbed under glass, and 
well inured to the weather before being planted out in the 
trenches. The last two crops are sown on a slightly warm 
bed under glass, and some are also sown in the open ground 
at the latter period. When the plants from these sowings are 
sufficiently advanced, they are either pricked into beds of rich 
mould, or are at once transplanted into their permanent 
situations, provided the early crops have been cleared from the 
trenches previously prepared for their growth. 
The earthing-up or blanching process is usually effected by 
three different operations : the first takes place when the 
n n n, ground level ; d d, trenches for Celery and under-cropping ; 
e e e, manure-bed ; ff, drain-pipes covered over with rough materials, 
and forming a connexion with the main drains. 
C represents the first crop of Celery earthed up after the whole of the 
under-crops have been removed from the ground . — h h, the first 
Celery crop ; g g g, the second crop, planted on a bed of manure in 
the trenches formed by the operation of earthing up the first crop. 
D represents the second crop, earthed up from the material on which the 
first crop had been grown, and the third succession planted on a new 
bed formed on the space formerly occupied by the first crop . — i i i, 
the second crop ; k 7c, the third crop, which will ultimately be earthed 
from the material occupied by the second crop. 
E represents the ground trenched and thoroughly mixed with the rich 
material so abundantly used in the cultivation of the Celery crop, the 
subsoil being broken up as low as the drainage, but not mixed with 
the top soil.—?, top soil ; m, subsoil. 
