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fo that it is feldom cultivated in gardens , but it any 
perfon is willing to propagate it, the feeds fhould be 
fown foon after they are ripe, on a mo-ill fpot of 
ground ; and when the plants come up, they may be 
either tranfplanted in a moift foil, or hoed out, and 
left fix or eight inches afunder, where they may re- 
main tor good. The feed of this plant is one of the 
lefter warm feeds ; both the herb and feeds are uled 
in medicine. 
The feeds of the two forts of Celery fhould be fown 
at two or three different times, the better to continue 
it for ufe through the whole feafon, without running 
up to iced. The firft fowing fhould be in the begin- 
ning of March, upon a gentle hot-bed ; the fecond 
may be a fortnight or three weeks after, which ought 
to be in an open fpot of light earth, where . it may 
enjoy the benefit of the fun •, the third time of fowing 
fhould be the end of April, or beginning of May, 
which ought to be in a moift foil and if expofed to 
the morning fun only, it will be fo much the better, 
but it fhould not be under the drip of trees. 
The feeds which are fown in. the hot-bed will come 
up in about three weeks or a month after fowing, 
when the plants fhould be carefully cleared from 
weeds •, and if the feafon prove dry, they muft be fre- 
quently watered ; and in about a month or five weeks 
after it is up, the plants will be fit to tranfplant : 
you muft therefore prepare fome beds of moift rich 
earth, in a warm fituation, in which you fhould 
prick the'fe young plants, at about three inches 
lquare, that they may grow ftrong •, and if the feafon 
fhould prove cold, the beds muft be covered with 
mats, to fcreen the plants from morning frofts, which 
would retard their growth : you muft alfo obferve, in 
drawing thefe plants out of the feed-beds, to thin 
them where they grow too thick, leaving the fmall 
plants to get more ftrength before they are tranfplant- 
ed ; by which means one and the fame feed-bed will 
afford three different plantings, which will accord- 
ingly fucceed each other for ufe. 
You muft obferve, if the feafon proves dry, to keep 
it diligently watered after it is tranfplanted, as alfo to 
clear the feed-beds from weeds •, and after every draw- 
ing, keep them duly watered, to encourage the fmall 
plants left therein. 
The middle of May fome of the plants of the firft 
fowing will be fit to tranfplant for blanching, which 
fhould be planted in a moift, rich, light foil, upon 
which the firft planted Celery will often grow to be 
twenty inches long in the clean blanched parts, which 
upon a poor or dry foil feldom rifes to be ten inches. 
The manner of tranfplanting it is as follows : after 
having cleared the ground of weeds, you muft dig a 
trench by a line about ten inches wide, and fix or 
feven inches deep, loofening the earth in the bottom, 
and laying it level ; the earth that comes out of the 
trench fhould be equally laid on each fide the trench, 
to be ready to draw in again to earth the Celery as 
it advances in height. Thele trenches fhould be made 
at three feet diftance from each other ; then plant the 
plants in the middle of the trench, at about four or 
five inches diftance, in one ftrait row, having before 
trimmed the plants, and cut off the tops of the long- 
leaves , when they are planted you muft obferve to 
clofe the earth well to their roots, and to water them 
plentifully until they have taken frefh root ; after which 
time it will be needlefs, except in dry foils, or very dry 
feafons : as thefe plants advance in height, you muft 
obferve to draw the earth on each fide clofe to them, 
being careful not to bury their hearts, nor ever to do 
it but in dry weather, otherwife the plants will rot. 
When the plants have advanced a confiderable 
height above the trenches, and all the earth, which 
was laid on the hides thereof, hath been employed in 
earthing them up ; you muft then make ufe of a fpade 
to dig up the earth between the trenches, which muft 
alfo be made ufe of for the fame purpofe, continuing 
from time to time to earth it up, until it is fit for ufe. 
The firft of your planting out will, perhaps, be fit 
for ufe by the beginning of July, and will be fucceed- 
ed by the after plantations and if the latter fo wings 
are rightly managed, there will be a fucceffion of Ce- 
lery tor ufe till April ; but you fhould obferve to 
plant the laft crop in a drier foil, to prevent its be- 
ing rotted with too much wet in winter *, and alfo if 
the weather fhould prove extreme fharp, you will 
do well to cover your ridges of Celery with fome 
Peafe-haulm, or fome fuch light covering, which will 
admit the air to the plants •, for if they are covered 
too clofe, they will be very fubjecft to rot ; by this 
means you may preferve your Celery in feafon a long 
time, but you muft remember to take off the cover- 
ing whenever the weather will permit, otherwife it 
will be apt to caufe the Celery to rot. By this me- 
thod of covering the Celery, the froft will be kept 
out of the ground ; fo it may be always taken up for 
ufe when it is wanted, which, if neglected, it cannot 
be taken up in hard froft. The Celery, when fully 
blanched, will not continue good above three weeks 
or a month before it will rot or pipe : therefore, in 
order to continue it good, you fhould have at leaft 
fix or leven different feafons of planting •, fo that if it 
be only intended to fupply a family, there need not 
be much planted at each time, but this muft be pro- 
portioned according to the quantity required. 
The other fort of Celery, which is commonly called 
Celeriac, is to be managed in the fame manner as is di- 
rected for the Italian Celery, excepting that this 
fhould be planted upon the level ground, or in very 
fhallow drills, for this plant feldom grows above eight 
or ten inches high, fo requires but little earthing up % 
the great excellency of this being in the fize of the 
root, which is often as large as ordinary Turneps. It 
ffiould be fown about the middle of March, upon a 
rich border of earth, and, iff dry weather, conftantly 
watered, otherwife the feeds will not grow : when the 
plants are large enough to tranfplant out, they fhould 
be placed eighteen inches afunder, row from row, and 
the plants fix or eight inches diftant in the rows •, the 
ground muft be carefully kept clean from weeds, but 
this fort will require but one earthing up, which fhould 
not be performed until the roots are nearly grown : 
both thefe forts of Celery delight in a rich, light, 
moift foil, where they will grow to a much larger 
fize, and will be Tweeter and tenderer than on a poor 
or dry ground. 
The belt method to fave this feed, is to make choice 
of fome long good roots of the upright Celery, which 
have not been too much blanched, and plant them 
out at about a foot afunder in a moift foil, early in 
the fpring ; and when they run up to feed, keep them 
fupported with flakes, to prevent their being broken 
down by the winds : and in July, when the feed be- 
gins to be formed, if the feafon fhould prove very 
dry, it will be proper to give fome water to the plants, 
which will greatly help their producing good feeds. In 
Auguft thefe feeds will be ripe, at which time it 
fhould be cut up, in a dry time, and fpread upon 
cloths in the fun to dry ; then beat out the feeds, and 
preferve them dry in bags for ufe. 
APIUM ANISUM DICTUM. See Pimpi- 
NELLA. 
APIUM MACEDONICUM. See Bubox. 
APIUM PYRENAICU M. See Crithmum, 
APOCYNUM. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 91. Lin. Gen, 
Plant. 269. [’A ttoxwov, of ccvo and xuvo? a dog, be- 
caule the antients believed this plant would kill dogs.] 
Doo-fbane. 
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The Characters are, 
The flower hath a permanent empalement of one leaf, cut 
into five acute fegments at the top ; it hath hut one petal, 
which is of the open bell-Jhape, cut info five parts at the 
brim, which turn backward in the bottom of the flower 
are fituated five nefit drums, which are oval, and fluff otrnd 
the germen : there are five ftamina, ficarce vifible, which 
are crowned by oblong erect fiummits, which are bifid 
in the center are two oval germen, fiupporting f mall ftyles , 
crowned with globular ftigma , larger than the germen. 
The germen afterward become two long pointed capfiules , 
opening in two valves, having one cell, which' is filled with 
comprefied feeds, lying over each other like tiles on a houfe, 
each being crowned with down, 
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