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CELERY. 
the night, with mats; he pricks out his seedlings 
into a nursery-bed when they are between two, 
and three inches high,—taking care to immerse 
them in water when taken up, and to keep them 
moist while out of the ground; he allows them to 
remain in the nursery-bed till they become very 
strong ; and he prepares his trenches by deep and 
elaborate digging with the spade, and by richly 
manuring them with thoroughly rotted old dung 
from spent hotbeds. “I give the ground a se- 
cond trenching,” says he, “ that the dung may the 
better be incorporated with the mould, and then 
leave it in as rough a state as possible, till my 
plants are ready to put out. In the ground thus 
| prepared, I form trenches twenty inches wide, 
_| and six inches deep, at six feet distance from each 
other, measuring from the centre of each trench. | 
Before planting, I reduce the depth of the trenches 
to three inches, by digging in sufficient dung to fill 
them upsomuch. At the time of planting, if the 
weather be dry, the trenches are well watered in 
the morning, and the plants are put in, six inches 
apart in the row, in the evening, care being 
taken to keep the fibres quite wet whilst out of 
_ ground, As they are drawn from the nursery- 
bed, the plants are dressed for planting, and then 
laid regularly in the garden-pan. The trenches 
in which my rows of ‘celery are planted being so 
very shallow, the roots of the plants grow nearly 
on a.level with the surface of the ground; this I 
consider particularly advantageous, for as con- 
siderable cavities are necessarily formed on each 
side when the moulding takes place, all injury 
from stagnant water or excess of moisture is pre- 
vented. The trenches, when planted, are watered 
as may be required. I do not think it well to 
load the plants with too much mould at first ; the 
two first mouldings, therefore, are done very 
sparingly, and only with the common draw-hoe, 
forming a ridge on each side of the row, and leav- 
ing the plants in a hollow to receive the full bene- 
fit of the rain and waterings. When the plants 
are strong enough to bear six inches height of 
mould, the moulding is done with the spade, 
taking care to leave basis enough to support the 
mass of mould which will ultimately be used in 
the ridge, and still keeping for some time the 
plants in a hollow. The process of moulding is 
continued through the autumn, gradually dimin- 
ishing the breadth of the top, until at last it is 
drawn to as sharp a ridge as possible, to stand 
the winter. In the operation of moulding, it is 
necessary, in order to prevent the mould from 
falling into the heart of the plant, to keep the 
outer leaves as close as possible. For this purpose, 
before I begin the moulding, I take long strands 
of bass matting, tied together till of sufficient 
length to answer for an entire row, and I fasten 
this string to the first plant in the row, then pass 
it to the next plant, giving it one twist round 
| the leaves, and so on till I reach the other end, 
_ where it is again fastened. When the moulding 
is finished, the string is easily unravelled by be- 
ginning to untwist it at the end where it was last 
fastened.” 
Celeriac is sown at the same time as the other 
varieties of celery, but requires a somewhat dif- 
ferent treatment. Its seeds cannot always be re- 
lied upon; and ought to be carefully selected, and 
put fully to the test. They should be sown very 
early in the year on rich soil, on a hotbed, under 
glass;-or in March or April, on beds of ordinary 
soil. The seedlings of the earliest sowing, may, 
when two or three inches high, be transplanted 
into another hotbed, at distances from one an- 
other of an inch and a half; and in the beginning 
or middle of June, the young plants may be 
transplanted into flat beds in the open ground, 
at distances from one another of fifteen inches; 
but they must not, like the other kinds of celery, 
be transplanted into trenches. Copious watering 
must be given immediately after the transplant- 
ing; it should afterwards be repeated daily in 
warm weather, and every alternate day in cool 
weather ;. and when the plants increase in size, 
the watering should increase in copiousness, and 
the hoe should be occasionally used. The roots 
of a properly cultivated succession are in season 
from September till January. 
CELLS. The small hexagonal divisions of 
honeycombs; also the cavities or spaces between 
the partitions of pods, husks, and other seed- 
vessels, 
CELLULAR TISSUE. Animal cellular tissue, 
substance, or membrane, is the medium which 
connects and supports all the various parts and 
structures of the animal body. Any person may 
gain a general notion of this substance by observ- 
ing it in joints of veal, when it is inflated by the 
butchers. It consists of an assemblage of fibres 
and lamine. of animal matter, connected with 
each other so as to form innumerable cells or 
small cavities, from which its name of cellular 
is derived. It pervades every part of the animal 
structure. By joining together the minute fibrils 
of muscle, tendon or nerve, it forms obvious and 
visible fibres. It collects these fibres into large 
fasciculi, and, by joining such fasciculi, or bun- 
dles, to each other, constitutes an entire muscle, 
tendon or nerve. It joins together the individual | 
muscles, and is collected in their intervals. It 
surrounds each vessel and nerve in the body, 
often connecting these parts together by a firm 
kind of capsule, and, in a looser form, joining 
them to the neighbouring muscles, &c. When 
condensed into a firm and compact structure, it 
constitutes the various membranes of the body, 
which, by long maceration in water, may be re- | 
solved into a loose, cellular texture. In the 
bones, it forms the basis or ground-work of their 
fabric, a receptacle, in the interstices of which 
the earth of bone is deposited. As cellular sub- | 
stance is entirely soluble in boiling water, it is 
considered, by chemists, as that peculiar modifi- 
cation of animal matter termed gelatine. In con- 
| sequence of its solution by the united agencies 
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