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CELERY. 
CELERY. 
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Celeri. Apium graveolens. 
VARIETIES. 
White Solid. j New White Lion’s Paw. 
Red-coloured Solid. | North’s Red Giant 
Celeriac, or Turnip*rooted. 
This vegetable, so much esteemed as a salad, is known in 
its wild state by the name of Smallage ; and is found in great 
abundance by the sides of ditches, and near the seacoast of 
Britain. The effects of cultivation are here strikingly exhi- 
bited, in producing from a rank, coarse weed, the mild and 
sweet stalks of the Celery. This circumstance should stimu- 
late the young gardener to aim at improvement in the culti- 
vation of plants in general. 
It is customary with some gardeners to raise their earfy 
plants in hot-beds ; but as plants thus raised are apt to pro- 
duce seed- stalks, it is much safer to cultivate them in cold- 
beds, prepared as directed for the raising of early Cabbage 
plants. The seed for a general crop may be sown the last 
week in March, or early in April, in rich, mellow ground, 
and in a situation where the plants can be protected from the 
parching heat of a summer sun (a border against a north 
aspect is the most suitable). Some sow the seed broad-cast, 
but the plants will be much stouter if raised in drills. The 
drills may be half an inch deep, and six inches apart, so that 
a small hoe can be worked between the rows ; and if pro- 
perly attended to, every ounce of seed so sown will produce 
ten thousand strong plants or more- 
The early sown plants should be pricked out in a nurser 
bed of cool rich earth, as soon as they are two or three inches 
high, there to remain about a month, after which they wit 
be fit to transplant into the trenches. 
Choose for this purpose a piece of rich ground, in an oper 
exposure ; mark out the trenches by line, ten or twelve inches 
wide, and allow the space of three feet between them, which 
