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Report of the Horticulturist of the 
" The plant grows to a large size, full-hearted, with a thick stem. 
Leaf stalks thick, deeply furrowed, and very solid, of a dark red or 
purplish hue where exposed, rose-colored where partly blanched; but 
the perfectly blanched portion is pure white, more so than the 
blanched part of the white varieties. Crisp, of excellent flavor, and 
unquestionably the best variety of red celery." Burr. 
C. Stems distinctly self-blanching. 
No. 25. GOLDEN YELLOW, Veg. Gar. 
Syn. Eureka Self Blanching?, Ev., '86, '87 : Golden Self Blanching, Burpee, 
'86: Yellow Golden Solid, Vil., '84: Fr., Celeri Chemin, Vil. : C. pleine blanc 
dore, Vil., '84. 
A variety of self -blanching celery of recent introduction, which 
originated with M. Chemin, near Paris, from the Sandringham celery. 
Late in the season the foliage, which is quite dwarf and inclined to 
blister, assumes a yellowish color, and without banking, the inner 
stems blanch to a creamy white clear to the tips. Stems rather 
slender, tender, mild and crisp. 
Readily distinguished from the White Plume by the yellowish tint 
of its stems and by its dwarfer, more yellowish foliage. 
Correctly figured in Veg. Gar., p. 188. 
No. 26. WHITE PLUME, Hen,; Veg. Gar. 
Syn. Henderson's White Plume, Greg., '84; Hen., '84, '87: Improved 
White Plume?, Thor., '85. 
The plant when young is little paler in color than in the Sandring- 
ham and other varieties of its class. But on the approach of autumn 
weather, the heart leaves become paler, and by the middle of October 
they have changed to a pure white; those about them take on a 
creamy white, spotted with pale green, and of the outermost leaves 
the ribs and veins are white. The stems are not numerous, but with 
the exception of the upper half of the outer row blanch completely 
without other banking than is sufficient to cause the stems to grow 
upright. When grown without banking, the stems are rather less 
mild and tender than in other varieties equally well blanched by bank- 
ing. It is one of the earliest of all varieties, and the perfectly 
blanched central leaves are very attractive on the table. It does not, 
however, keep well as a winter celery. 
Introduced in 1884 by Messrs. Henderson & Co., of New York. A 
bunch of plants is well illustrated in Gar. for Profit, ed. of 1887 
p. 186. 
