New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-24

CELERY.-There are but few farmers who attempt
10 grow celery yet il is not difficult matter and it ii
an excellent vegetable not only sort OF continent
Ike pickle colesaw &c. but it is nourishing food.
And every farmers wife who has taste for setting
handsome table, either for her family or when
she has company, will always be glad 10 have a hand
some dish Of celery as a table ornament if it was
not touched rs food Where there is market for it,
II is considered as good paying crop almost any
one that can be grown with so little trouble ne this
garden vegetable. The HorticaHurist says:
Nearly all the Celery sold in the NewYork
markets is grown AZ a second crop. The ground il first
heavily manuIed III Spring for crops Of early cabbages,
beets OF onions which sod oil usually by the INST
week in July. The ground Is then cleared OH, plowed,
and harrow cd, and at once planted with Celery y the
proUad iS m07st cH0Ugh 10 rccc5Ue u. The celery
Teued in rows four feet apart for early and three feet
for the late croI-plants IN each sx inches apart
ali ON Tire surface OF the ground This Is what Is tech
uicaly termed the fiat system. Never manure sPe-
ciay for Celery unless Tie crop preceding has been
neglected and then manure over the whole surface as
any one Of experience knows that the leedlnggr0und
for rOOr IL not confined TO ak inches on each SIDE
Of tie plants, but that they Will meet III the center OF
four feet rows; hence the absurdity OF uanuriug only
in the rows The culture OF the crop by the Hat sys-
tenn is very simple In a week after planting, the
ground i run through by the triangular hoe harr0wi
4 IL continued at intervals Of ten or twelve days
throughout the season keep down the weeds and stir
n . ground 4 man and horse cultivate four acres
rer day OF something near l2O,OO roots, which, by
IL trench system, would require ell to be hoed by
hand involving az least twenty times the amount Vi
manual labor
As soon AZ the Celery gets to be - IL inches high,
instead of the boeharrow use plow to throw slight
frrow to The Celery; then the handling straight
epinq-up Process il gone through with and heavier
rroT is then thrown against it. 1t is then allowed 10
remain eight or ten days TO extend the hearts when
tie banking process is finished by the spade This is
the practice with what il sold in September, October,
and November That which ID Pit away TO preserve
for Winter use il done The came with in every respect
EXCEPT hat it s not banked up by the spade nor
Jancbed in any way before being put away.
The crop being all handled and Strengthened up,
begin to put away what you want for through De
cober on the first dry day after the 9th of October
dates are Of great importance for localities of the same
t.mperatureJ, and 20 continue until You insh which
NAV be about the 18th of November any later in our
district s dangerous for frost; earlier, the Celery will
whiten too quick, and rot.
The beat manner of preserving is 10 choose sandy,
or at least dry spot in an open exposure, stretch
line and dig trench Or drain 10 ~ inches wide, and
Of the depth Of the Celery to he put away. 1t s then
dug MP, the earth well shaken from the roots, ana
hacked prpcHdicpiGriy in the trench or dram, just
tobi enough not TO bruse the stems No earth IL put
tbe roots the damp soil of the trench gives moisture
e,iouoh You simply dig trench and pack il fall OF
Celery and Jet il stand until there is danger OF hard
freezing. then throw strawy stable manure On each
side leaving strip of the green leaves in the center
uncovered. This gves ventilation, and prevents TOO
rapid riponng This may be done the first OF Deem
Der, and BY the middle the whole may be covered Elk
or eight nches deep over the sides and top 1t can be
drawn any time during Wnteg for use or market Inc
near contact Of the stalks with the manure while thus
stored does not ahect the Celery any than it does
while growing before il taken up, any more than
il does potatoes or any other vegetable that eat
About topping the plants when transpanting largo
grower Of Celery says: " / NOW off with the rcythe
rome three inches of the tops Of Celery plants twice
o In the leason before LrAnspIantlng."