310 Remarks on Raising Celery. 
maintain it more nearly in ordinary management, and take the 
place of others. For it does not follow that a superiority in one 
state of trial will attend the plant in other circumstances, which 
are probably more unfavorable to itself, and more agreeable to 
others. 
The common " ray grass," and the " meadow fesscue," are su- 
perior to all other grasses in readiness of growth on the greatest 
variety of soils, in yielding a produce of the greatest general 
value in the points of bulk and of nutritive quality, and in aiibrd- 
ing the largest quantity of sound healthy seed, easily gathered and 
managed. Timothy grass is equal to them in all respects save 
one — the certainty of growth on gravels, sands, chalks, and clays. 
On damp soils, and on cool loams, it is equal to the above men- 
tioned grasses, and is superior to them in more points than one. 
But as an exception must be made in the case above stated, and 
which is of some value in the view of general utility, Timothy 
grass must occupy the third place in the graduated li.sl of useful 
graminivorous plants. — Mark Lane Express. 
REMArxKS ON RAISING CELERY. 
BY K. L., LONG ISLAND. 
The raising of celery is a subject that may appear to your 
readers to need very few directions, as it is so generally under- 
stood in our gardens. But having been more than usually suc- 
cessful in growing this fine vegetable on a large scale, perhaps a 
few remarks, giving the detail of my mode, may not be unaccepta- 
ble to your readers. 
I raise my crop of celery mostly for the winter's supply; and, 
to simplify the matter, I shall only speak here of the main crop. 
Those of your readers who wish to have it earlier, may easily do 
so by starting the plants in a hot-bed, about the middle of March. 
The best time for the sowing lor the main winter's crop, is 
about the first of April. Although I have succeeded perfectly 
well, by sowing on a rich warm border, yet to insure against the 
accidents of a cold and untoward season, I usually sow in a slight 
hot-bed, and cover, as usual, with glass. 
About the middle of May I choose a bit of ground in the warm- 
est and richest part of the garden for the " stock bed." This I 
prepare, by digging it thoroughly, and mixing with the upper- 
most six inches of the soil, as rich a coat of old manure as I can 
well incorporate with it. In this plat or bed, thus well prepared, 
