Vegetable Notes. 
In regard to wintering celery, it has long 
been the practice of many, if not most, of 
the Boston gardeners to secure their celery 
crop in a pit made in the following manner: 
They excavate a pit about eight feet wide, 
as long as they need, throwing the earth 
from the excavation on each side. Then 
through the centre of the pit a row of 
posts is set to which a ridge-pole is nailed. 
The celery is packed in the pit tightly in the 
same manner that the New Yorkers fill 
their ditches with it. When tilled, boards 
are cut long enough to reach from the 
ridge to the sides of the pit, The eartli from 
the excavation m banked over the roof so as 
to exclude frost, but the ends are left with a 
loose stuffing of straw until the weathsr gets 
severe, when they are boarded up and bank¬ 
ed. I tried this method once and found that, 
in our climate, it will he necessary to add 
posts and a ' light plate to support the 
lower edges of the boards, as, in mv 
case, there came a soft spell with heavy 
rains in January, and the sides of my 
celery pit gave* way. letting the whole 
roof down in a mass and causing the loss of 
some thousands of celery roots. With the 
addition of a hoard at the sides to prevent 
this disaster, I think this is the most perfect 
and convenient plan for wintering celery 
grown in rows. The boards forming the 
roof of the pit are not to be nailed, and the 
whole thing can he uncovered and the lum¬ 
ber stored awa}’ to dry in summer.. 
From my experience last summer I am in¬ 
clined to agree with Mr. Watson that tint 
culture of potatoes is best in our climate. 
T had a patch of Beauty of Hebron potatoes, 
that during the favorable weather in early 
summer grew with such wonderful rapidity 
that it did not receive the final earthing up 
with the plow which our other potatoes re¬ 
ceived. The result was a crop of potatoes 
from a small piece of ground that measured 
so many bushels that I have almost feared 
to tell visitors the amount for fear I would 
not be believed. In fact, but for this plot 
of ground, less than one hundred feet 
square, we would not have had potatoes 
enough to supply us till Christmas. The 
variety, of course, may have had something 
to do with it, as I find the Beauty of He¬ 
bron one of the most productive sorts, and 
it has the further advantage of making very 
few small potatoes. As to growing lettuce 
in frames without mats, Mr. Watson may 
rest assured that it can, in our latitude, be 
done with ease, provided always that the 
frames are well aired and the plants not al¬ 
lowed to grow fast and get tender until 
February, after which date the frames may 
be kept a little closer. In our framing 
ground here, all our frames are provided 
with tongued and grooved shutters regular¬ 
ly used. Outside the frame yard and in 
more exposed situations, we have a num¬ 
ber of frames for which we have no shut¬ 
ters and on which no covering is used. 
In all these frames the principal crop is let¬ 
tuce, and to-day. if there is any difference, 
the lettuce in the frames that have no cov¬ 
er is better than that in the frame yard. 
My impression is that frost gets into a cold 
frame more under the sides than by the 
glass, if that fits closely, and I therefore 
pay more attention to banking the sides 
than to covering the top. Of course, in 
hot-beds the case is different, as there we 
cover the glass to prevent radiation of heat 
from within. To day it lias been dark and 
sleeting, and the shutters on our frames 
are covered with ice, and so they have 
been left on. The uncovered frames have 
had the advantage of daylight. This state 
of things occurs so often during the course 
of a long whiter, that the shutting in from 
sunlight more than balances any advantage 
in the shutters. As hot-beds are^rapidly 
becoming a tiling of the past, I think that 
mats and shutters on cold frames will soon 
be dropped. If it were possible to exclude 
frost altogether by this means there 
would soon be use for them, ;but I have 
never yet seen frost altogether, kept out 
from a cold frame in our severest weather. 
Even in our cauliflower frames, which are 
built with brick walls and sodded nearly to 
the top, the frost gets in with the shutters 
on almost as readily as without them. Un 
fact, it seems to me that frost gets through 
the brick walls as quick or quicker thanjin- 
to a board frame well banked with earth. 
