The Cultivation of Vegetables 
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CELERY 
Celery is another most wholesome vegetable, but as 
it is more or less tender it requires considerable care. 
When well grown it fully repays one for the trouble 
involved in its cultivation. It is only half-hardy. 
The seeds for the main crop should, therefore, be sown 
towards the end of February, in a fairly rich soil, in pots 
or boxes, These should then be placed in a slight bottom 
heat, either in frames on a hotbed or in the greenhouse. 
Care should be taken not to sow thickly, as Celery should 
not be pricked off too early, and, if thickly sown, the 
plants will get drawn, and more or less spoiled. When 
the plants have formed two or three rough leaves they 
should be pricked out into boxes of fairly rich soil, 2 in. 
apart each way, after which they should again be placed 
in slight heat until the plants take to the new soil, when 
they should be gradually hardened off, care being taken 
never to allow the plants to become dry, or many of 
them may run to seed. 
In the meantime, trenches should be made for the plants, 
the double-row trenches being considered the best, as in 
these the plants can be conveniently handled. They should 
be made 2 ft. broad, and 3 ft. allowed between the trenches. 
This will afford plenty of room to bank up the soil on 
either side, and will also provide plenty of soil for “ earth- 
ing up ”. The soil should be taken out to a depth of from 
12 to 14 in., and if the good soil does not go to a con- 
siderable depth below that, some of the subsoil should be 
thrown out on one side, and 4 to 6 in. of well-decayed 
cow manure put in, this being covered with about 6 in. 
