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CULTURE OF CELERY. 
For a principal crop of Celery, let the seed be sown about the 
beginning of March, under a frame of moderate heat, in a light com¬ 
post, and when the plants have made four or six leaves, transplant 
them under a cold frame, in the like compost, it being about four 
inches deep, and placed on a hard or beaten surface. Let the plants 
be from five to six inches apart, in order to give an amplitude of 
space for both root and plant to acquire strength, previous to a final 
transplanting on the trenches, which must be carefully performed 
as hereafter directed; and let them have all the benefit of sun and 
air by day, and shelter by night. 
To produce Celery of good quality, very large, fine and clean 
grown, there are several particular essentials, different in some re¬ 
spects to any which have hitherto been promulgated, necessary to be 
attended to and adopted by those Gardeners who are anxious to 
rival, or excel the justly famed Lancashire growers. 
First, let a compost be prepared in the beginning of winter, and 
where practicable, let it consist of two-thirds good Bog-soil, and one- 
third well decomposed dung from an old hot-bed ; or in case the hog- 
soil he poor, let the quantities he equal: let them he thrown up 
together, twice turned over and thoroughly incorporated, and at the 
last turning over, shortly before filling the trenches therewith, in 
neighbourhoods where good fertilizing magnesian lime can he pro¬ 
cured, add from one to two bushels thereof to a cart load of compost; 
this will cause an ammonia to he given forth highly conducive to the 
rapid growth of the plants. Bog-soil is recommended in preference 
to every other, on account of its peculiar retention of moisture, as 
well as the facile nature of its composition, being adapted to receive 
and nourish the delicate and multitudinous fibres. In situations 
where bog-soil, or peat cannot be readily procured, let the sods of a 
grass sward, together with a portion of leaf mould, supply its place, 
to which add one-third part of dung. 
Secondly, in order to grow Celery very large, it is indispensably 
necessary to abstain from and avoid those constant soilings or earth¬ 
ings up, which have been frequently recommended in the Register, 
and reiterated from various parts of the kingdom, and which are also 
in almost universal practice. This bold innovation on general man¬ 
agement, I am aware, is calculated to excite the ire of many experi¬ 
enced gardeners, and to array against me a host of captious corres¬ 
pondents ; yet no gauntlet is thrown, neither will there be any 
shrinking from temperate discussion. It will be asked, are we to 
cease blanching ? Are we to grow Celery as stray and wild as a 
solitary Fern on inaccessible rocks ? To such, and all synonymous 
