The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-08-01
WILLIAM PRINCE.
From Randolph's Gardener.
CELERY.

vegetable have cultivated it in every way thai boye .
heard of On the surface in single rows in trenches in
single rows; in trenches. in double rows in trenches in b
rows and in beds: and have to the conclusion md
am now Practcng it, that beds the convenient anJ
that the Celery will be- in every respect profitable than
when cultivated in any other way.
Having provided soil best adapted to this veoe,,bl
which think is cold, springy, light piece of ground but
where you are enabled, having suiciency of fall in the
ground to draw off all the water that may accumulate po
coed 10 lay off with your line bed, about five and half
feet wide dig out the earth about and half spades deem
and throw on each side II the soil deep, and you have
not gotten through by the dirt YOU have removed vou MAJ
carry and spread about five inches thick of good rotten
manure from your heap, and then with gubbno
hoe dig up the manure and much of the under Won
can you should get through the soil in digging foot and
half deep throw back into the bed about inches of the
mould richest top earth be incorporated with the ma
nne you are about to put that the plants may have
good soil TO in, and then treat the bed before dice
ted Should you require than the one bed Law off
another precisely similar the before directed taking
care to leave space of eight feet least bed and
bed, Tor the purpose OF eartng the Celery progress
ses In growth After this lei your hands take their wedding
hoes and walk backwards chop mix together and puverge
the bed as much as possbe after they have chopped
OVER and IS not too wet, proceed to rake neatly off,
breaking the small clods that may be it, and too Of re-
moving any long litter that be sufficiently rotten
amongst the manure 1t all important to have well roted
manure or else, when the weather in very hot yo
plants will burn up by Of the of the manure
Having finished this bed time previous to wishing TO
transplant your Celery plants, which always BETTER for
they ought TO have time settle before planting you
ought to provide yourself with planting boards say
boards five feet and half long, foot wide six inches
from the end of the boards, which must be sawed square,
make an indent the board with gouge, about one inch
diameter, and six inches along the boards which will
make nine ndents in each board When the time arrives for
setting your plants out, which think if the season will per-
NIT ought to be about the last of june for early CROP
stretch your garden line edge of the bed and then
take one of the boards ndened and lay end square
with the line, that the board will lay transyersey
the bed Having provided parcel of plants properly pre-
pared the roots trimmed about three inches long The suck
and dead leaves pulled off, and the tops cut off about
SIX inches long, proceed, standing the board 10 with
your dbbe, plant in every indent the board which will
take nine plants; then take the other board lay square
with the line, the FIRST and let it arrange along side Of the
other board on which you standings the plants beng pa
ced IN the Ddent of the board will permit the board YOU
now about to to close the before laid down.
proceed then to set plant before directed the ndens
OF inns too and also, when those filled up bring forward
the hlndmost board again So alternately till you the
end of the bed two hands ought 10 be employed setting
with one set of boards for they too cumbersome and
heavy for one individual Should the weather be very
ho aer ranspanng the Celery you had better have the
beds covered during the hot months After plants have
taken root good deal Of the covering may be Withdrawn,
out not ALL tor IN tins climate the Sun TOO hot for Celery
10 remain uncovered; it is absolutely necessary shade it.
ne plan have adopted for shading s have small
about two feet long, sharpened and driven down the
dde OF the bed and poles stretched along the middle
the forks and lay from the south side oak bush which will
reach sufficiently far the north side of the bed shade
H this will conveniently shade the plants, and the
time, admit sufcency of air 1t is best TO cover the beds
the plants ou for by doing So you retain
what moisture is in the bed much longer and therefore,
keep your plants cooler and better. After your plants have
aken root and stuations and