THE 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 
April 1st, 1832. 
PART I. HORTICULTURE, &c. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
Article I. — On the Cnltivation of Celery. By Joseph 
Harrison, one of the Conductors of this Magazine. 
Celery, in its wild state, is found growing in marshy ground. When 
found in stagnant wet situations, the !?oil being sour, is less favourable 
to its growth ; but where there is a frequent renewal of fresh water, 
it grows proportionably more vigorous. 
In its cultivated state I have observed, that when planted in a 
strong soil, retentive of moisture, ("but upon an open sub-soil,") 
and the soil kept moist by fresh water, it always grows much more 
vigorously than when planted in a situation where the sub-soil is very 
wet, although the trenches in which it is planted are pi-epared alike, 
as to soil, in both situations. Where there is the advantage of a 
strong loam, as described, upon a favourable sub-soil, and the trenches 
are prepared as hereafter directed, and the plants treated in the man- 
ner stated. Celery may be grown so as to have the heads weighing 
from ten to twelve i)ounds each. 
To have successive crops, it of course requires seed to be sown at 
different periods. For a crop to use from August, sow the first week 
in February ; and for a crop to use from November, sow the first 
week in March. It however often happens that the siiiullest plants 
of the tirst-sown crop will answer instead of the IVIarch sowing. 
The method I pursue in raising the plants, and in their subsequent 
culture, is as follows: — 
The seeds are sown in a box filled with light rich loam, the top soil 
very finely sifted, for the seeds readily to strike root into. After the 
seed is sown, the box is placed in a viueiy, or pine- stove, kept at 
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