CULTURE OF CELERY. 
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sort in cultivation, for use from July until the end of October; at 
which period it succumbs to the inclemency of the weather, which 
about that time is generally too severe for its constitution. In No¬ 
vember, it ought to be succeeded by a crop of the pink sort, which 
is very hardy, not till then in perfection, and probably is the most 
solid of all known varieties. In describing their distinctive colours, 
it may be observed, that the Salmon coloured is more grave, or sombre 
than the pink: and the name ‘ Pink ’ is truly descriptive of its 
peculiar tinge of colour, being lighter and livelier than the red 
gigantic; it is also less furrowed and therefore easily distinguished: 
both kinds blanch equally well. 
In growing Celery, many gardeners, with a laudable but misplaced 
zeal of surpassing their contemporaries, use a profusion of dung, almost 
without any admixture of soil, in their seed Boxes, in their plant 
Borders, and in their Trenches, to which they add liquid manure at 
repeated intervals; and in such cases commonly find their produce of 
stunted growth , of an acrid taste, and ligamentous tenacity. These 
observations are not made as wholly condemnatory of the use of dung 
in growing Celery, but to expose the fallacy of such unlimitted pro¬ 
fusion ; for well sized and superior flavoured Celery may certainly 
be obtained without the aid of dung or other tillage, in situations 
where good bog soil can be procured,—for instance, say, the top spit 
of a good pasture. No doubt good bog soil, or good pasture on such 
soils, will be deemed paradoxical, by many persons in various parts 
of Great Britain, and yet nothing is more certain than the existence 
in particular localities, of good land, producing most abundant crops 
of grain, meadow, pasture and vegetables whose component parts are 
wholly bog, or peat ; having received the benefits of a thorough 
drainage and course of tillage. In illustration of this position, we 
may probably be allowed a digression, to state a well authenticated 
fact: namely, having thrown out all the original soil of a border, to 
the depth of a foot or upwards, and filled the same up to its common 
level with Bog soil, for the purpose of growing heat shrubs, a few 
Cucumber seeds were accidentally strewed thereon, which struck 
root and grew with such intense vigour, without the slightest aid of 
tillage, that it became necessary to erect a temporary fence between 
that and another border on the south side thereof, in order to curtail 
its impetuous growth within some reasonable bounds; this being- 
accomplished, the Cucumbers ascended to the summit of the fence, 
in some parts eight feet high, and produced, at an elevation of six feet, 
many large and fine fruit, the singular situation of which naturally 
excited considerable attraction. 
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