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CELERI TUEO AND ITS ALLIES. 
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For indoor winter decoration we have a whole host of bright-berried plants, 
including Solanums, as S. Capsicastrum^ S. pseudo-Capsicum^ S. Yellow Gem^ and 
one or two others. The cotoneaster-like Pernettyas^ as P. microphijlla and P. 
mucronata^ are well adapted for pot-culture, and are highly commended by the 
few who cultivate them for conservatory decoration. Rivina Icevis (Jiumilis of 
gardens) and the scarlet-fruited Ardisia^ together with its yellow-fruited variety, 
are well known as warm greenhouse or stove plants. The pretty little Nertera 
depressa^ which in habit reminds one of a plant of Selaginella densa^ covered with 
coral beads, spreads rapidly in a cool, genial atmosphere, and does well in a 
Wardian case in the sitting-room. Leucocarpus alata^ with white berries, Calli- 
caipa purpurea^ and even the ordinary scarlet and yellow-fruited Capsicums, may 
be grown for producing an agreeable variety.—F. W. Burbidge. 
CELERI TURG AND ITS ALLIES. 
HE account of this Celery in the Florist and Pomologist (1873, p. 284,) 
is entirely wrong. It is not Tube's Celery, but what I have named it in 
the heading, CUe7'i Turc, Forty years ago, and many years subsequently, 
it was distributed by the Royal Horticultural Society among their annual 
collections of seeds. The English synonym was Lion's Paw^ from the leaf-stems 
being flat and fleshy, and very much divided at the top. I knew it full forty 
years back as being grown by my late father ; indeed, up to the introduction 
of Cole’s superior variety, he grew nothing else, and few men grew Celery better, 
both on the single-row and bedding system. 
The Incomparable which Mr. Turner of Slough distributed is not Cele^n Turc^ 
though it is, no doubt, a selection from it, being less flat in the leaf-stalk, with 
more heart, and consequently a better keeper. Celei'i Tw'c did not keep well, 
being very liable to rot, but in point of crispness, freedom from thread, and rich 
nutty flavour, it had and has no superior. For stewing our German chef de cuisine 
would take no other, and he cooked it entire, without being cut into lengths, as 
is the usual custom. 
CarmichaeTs Celei'y^ as shown in November at South Kensington, is the most 
like Celeri Turc of anything that I have seen for some years past, except that it 
is some three or four inches too tall. Of the very shabby lot shown, this was 
certainly the best, and for family use it is, I think, a very promising variety, 
about intermediate between Celeri Turc and Cole’s Crystal White. 
The Nottingham growers—working-men, I mean—have some varieties of 
Celery, and the best of them grow it in a much superior manner to anything we 
see at the Metropolitan Shows. The secret of superior Celery-growing is to sow 
seed at the right time, and to suffer the plants to know no check until they have 
arrived at full maturity. The Nottingham artisan, who wants Celery to show 
the first week in October, sows the first week in April, on a slight hot-bed, with 
the protection of glass. His plants know no check, and he rarely fails to bring 
them up perfectly blanched and weighing from 4 lb. to 7 lb. per head at the 
