THE 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 
January Ut, 1832. 
PART I. HORTICULTURE, ^c. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
Article I. — On the Cultivation of Celery. By Mr. C. 
Mackay, Under-Gardenev to the Botanical and Horti- 
cultural Society, of Manchester. 
Gentlemen, 
Having been m the neighbourhood of Manchester for these 
two years past, and observing the Celery to be superior in quality to 
that grown in other parts where I have been, and likewise observing 
in one of the numbers of your Magazine, that you wished tor an ac- 
count of the Celery cultivated in the neighbourhood of Manchester, I 
am induced to send you the following. 
My opinion is, the Celery that goes by the name of the Solid-Red, 
is a distinct variety from that which the London seeds-men send out 
under that name ; and what appears a convincing proof of it, is, the 
early crop that is sown in the month of February does not run to seed, 
as the other kind is liable to do. 
The invariable method practised by the best growers about Man- 
chester, is, to sow the first crop on a small bed, of a size suitable for 
a one-light frame, prepared after the usual way, and when the young 
plants have attained sufficient strength for pricking out, there should 
be a bed prepared of the following compost; one half of rotten dung, 
the other of rich loam, well mixed together, made about six or seven 
inches in depth, upon a hard beaten surface, where it may receive the 
benefit of the sun ; by which means, the plants acquire good roots, by 
not penetrating too deep into the earth. They are afterwards trans- 
planted out in trenches of 18 inches wide, taking out the soil to the 
depth of 10 inches, and filling them up with rotten dung, so as to 
admit a covering of soil sufficient to prevent the air from injuring the 
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