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CULTURE OF THE OXALIS CRENATA. 
hand if needful: and this being performed, cover those young and 
tender fibres close up to the stem of the plant with about two inches 
deep of the compost or other light ^earth, to nourish them and protect 
them from the too powerful avidity of the Suns rays; recollecting 
this is the only earthing, or soiling up that is to be applied until the 
final one for blanching. 
The four preceding paragraphs contain the principal rules necessary 
to be adopted for the production of large Celery, and all directions 
that have been, or may hereafter be given to produce large and fine 
Celery weighing twelve pounds and upwards each root, merely by the 
force of tillage in repeated doses, with the pretended advantage of strong 
soil, and coupled with regular earthings up every week or oftener, are 
purely fallacious. 
Slugs, Grubs and Worms are very apt to attack and spoil the ap¬ 
pearance of Celery, which ought always to be sent to table clean and 
spotless as a Lily. To prevent their approach, give a slight sprink¬ 
ling of wood ashes, or of powdered charcoal from the pits, on each 
side of the rows or trenches: and by using proper care, it may be 
produced as clean and peerless as the finest fruit. 
As regards the most suitable soil, the decidedly best Celery we ever 
saw taken up, weighed upwards of sixteen pounds, was as clean, well 
blanched, and spotless as the most fastidious epicure could desire,— 
not even a discoloured, or perforated leaf observable in the middle of 
October; and was produced on a sand-soil with a sub-soil of very 
open, coarse sand. 
The management of early and successional crops—the mode and 
time of watering—and many other minor and occasional attentions,— 
which particular situations, seasons’ and circumstances may and will 
require to be varied, will readily suggest themselves to practical and 
attentive men. 
Article II.—CULTURE OF THE OXALIS CRENATA, 
BY MR. YOUNG, 
Gardener to the Earl of Enniskillen, (from the Irish Farmers and Gard. May.) 
The manner of culture very much resembles that of the potatoe, with 
this exception, the tubers should not be planted whole, if so, the plant 
grows strong and diffuse, causing an abundant growth of offsets from 
the roots, which impoverishes the plant, and extracts the necessary 
nourishment assigned to the formation of the tubers. 
The tubers should be cut in sets, the same as is done with potatoes 
