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ing of the soil previous to the planting; 
it should be turned up into deep ridges 
in winter, so as to be well frozen, and 
when levelled down again the grubs 
must be carefully looked for and killed; 
in places where they are very numerous 
perhaps -the best means of riddance is to 
burn the soil. 
The grubs in the foliage are more 
easily destroyed by hand-picking, which 
should be done immediately they are 
observed, or in a little time they will 
spread throughout the entire crop, and 
under any circumstances it would be 
better to pull off even all the leaves, 
than to leave these depredators undis¬ 
turbed to breed a plague for the next 
year, besides destroying the supply for 
the present. 
Generally speaking, red Celery is to 
be preferred, even for table, as it is 
usually sweeter than the white, and may 
be blanched to equal the latter. Sey¬ 
mour’s Red and White and the Pon¬ 
derous are among the best kinds. 
The turnip-rooted, or Celeriac, is 
sometimes grown for its large root, which 
is eaten stewed; it merely requires 
sowing in drills any time in March, to 
be afterwards thinned to a foot from 
each other. 
CHERRY. Cerasus Caproniana and 
duracina (D. C.) Nat. Ord. Amygdalince. 
The Cherry is one of the first fruits of 
the season, and higlily esteemed; they 
are grown in all the various modes 
admissible among fruit trees, as stand¬ 
ard and dwarf trees for the orchard or 
kitchen garden, trained to the surface of 
walls in various aspects, or low speci¬ 
mens placed in pots for forcing. By the 
first method, which is the most usual, 
and very extensively adopted in several 
parts of the country, especially through 
Kent, very large crops of fine-flavoured 
fruit are produced in favorable seasons, 
though sometimes, from then early 
habit of flowering, the blossoms are 
injured by late frosts, and the fruit con¬ 
sequently destroyed; to lessen the pro¬ 
bability of this danger, it has become 
usual, in private gardens, to place a 
numberof the trees against thewalls, that 
their flowers may be protected in un¬ 
favorable weather by mats or canvas 
hung from the top of the wall and 
reaching to the ground; and also, with a 
view to hasten the period of ripening, by 
extending the branches in a regular 
manner under the influence of the sun, 
which is increased by the refraction of 
its rays from the wall, and equally dis¬ 
tributed over the entire plant. In 
either position Cherry trees require rich 
friable loam to grow in, and the deeper 
this staple the better for their roots. 
The pruning of such as stand in the 
open quarters or orchard must be con¬ 
fined to the removal of dead and super¬ 
fluous branches, which should be taken 
away while they are small, as the trees 
will not bear severe amputation without 
incurring great danger from gumming; 
those against the walls should be cut, 
with a view to the production of fruit- 
spurs, all foreright and extra branches 
should be reduced to about two joints 
of their origin, but the leaders or ter¬ 
minal growths should never be pruned 
unless it is desired to increase their 
number, winch is seldom the case except 
with young trees. It is advisable to 
perform all the necessary work on this 
family in the autumn, as they begin to 
move at a very early part of the spring, 
and null not then bear cutting. 
Those treated as wall-trees should be 
placed in positions according with the 
ulterior object in their cultivation; for 
besides very early fruit to be obtained 
from walls having a southern aspect, 
considerable advantage is gained by an 
opposite course, for when planted on 
the north side a late crop of very large 
fruit may also be secured, and are very 
generally thought as much of as even the 
earliest; it is only the first-mentioned 
that will require protection in spring, 
the others, from their position, being 
deterred from shooting till danger from 
frost is past. The best mode of covering 
is to attach to the coping of the wall a 
piece of thin canvas having a roller at 
its bottom edge, and by inclining slight 
wooden rods from the top of the wall to 
the ground, at about a foot from the 
base of the tree, the blind may be 
drawn up or let down at pleasure, with 
