, 1861-02-08
Agricultural.

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icuIt matter and it is an excellent vcgeta
Bile, not only as assort of condIment, lik
pickle, coldslaw, &c, but it is nourishinl
ioOd. And every farmers wife who has
taste for setting a handsome table, eithe
for her own family or when she has compa
nv, will always be glad to have n hand
some dish of celery as a table ornament
i il is not touched rs food. Where ther
1 market for it, it is considered as gooC
4 paying crop as almost any one that car
he grown with so little trouble as this gar
den vegetable The Hortieulturist says:
"Nearly all the celery sold in the New
York market is grown as q second crop
The ground is first heavily manured il
Spring for crops of early cabbages, beets
or onions, which are sold off usually by the
6rst week in July. The ground is then
cleared of, plowed, and narrowed, and al
once planted, if the ground is moist enough
10 receive it. The celery is planted in rows
four feet apart for early, and three feet foT
The late crOp-plants in each case six inch
es apart-all Oh the surface of the ground
This is what is termed the q fat system
Never manure specially for celery unless
tbe crop preceding it has been neglected
and thea manure over the whole surface,
as any one of experience knows that the
feeding ground for roots is not confined to
six inches on each side of the plants, but
that they will meet in the center Of four
feet rows hence the ahsurdity Of manur.
ing only in the rows The culture Of the
crop by the { fat system is very simple
10 week or SO after planting, the ground
as run through by the triangular hoe har-
row this is continued at intervals Of ten
or twelve days throughout the season to
keep down the weeds and stir the ground.
man aud horse can cultivate four acres
per day, or something near l20, 900 roots,
which, by the trench system, would require
all to be hoed by hand, involving at least
twenty times the amount Of manual labor.
As soon as the celery gets to be fifteen
or eighteen inches high, instead of the hoe
barrow use q plough to throw slight fur
row to the celery then the handling"
or straightening-up process is gone through
With, and heavier furrow is then thrown
Hgainst it. 1t is then allowed to remain
eight or ten days 70 extend the hearts, when
Tie banking process is finished by the spade
This is the practice with what is sold in
September, October, aud November That
which is put away for Winter use is done
the same with 10 every respect, except that
i is not banked up by the spade nor blan-
ched in any way before being put away
Mu York Tribune
The WAY TO REJUvENATE SICILY
TREE-In compliance Of promise, l will
proceed to give you an account Of the way
Ireiuvenate apple trees which are in pro
gess Of decay from having bad aud un-
healthy roots. Such trees l supply with
an entire set Of new roots, and do it in the
following manner Scrape away all the
earth from the tree down to the sickly
roots these you let remain and, having
ssupply Of well-rooted young trees from
the nursery, these you cut off ten inches
above their roots, and giving their upper
end a judicious slope with a sharp knife
entering the bark on the upper side three
inches back, and coming out at the bark
On the lower side, just at the end; they
are now ready for being inserted between
The bark and the wood Of the tree, three
or four inches above the old roots; which
s done BY making incisions through the
bark, and running their ends between the
bark aud wood for some inches up the tree,
with the young roots radiating out from
the tree. You now cover these young roots
four or Eve inches deep with earth, raise q
small meuhd round the body of the tree,
reaclfnga foot or more up it, and the thing
3 done, your tree is saved, and all the en-
sTgies. Of the young tree-now its roots
pouring food of vitality into its old deere
pit, body, causing it to throw out healthful
tablespoons from its mOssy branches, the
latter Of which would advise to cat away,
and let the young sprouts form to DE tree
anew top. 1t is proper that should say
that early spring is the only time this oper,
alton can be performed with success, aud
ns early as the wood and bark OF the tree
are found to sepsrate freely.
1t frequently SO happens that some ot
my trees have decayed roots on one side
and healthy ones on the other. In that
case, coufne my operations, as described
above, to the sicky side Of the tree, and
am careful to furnish the young roots with
AcoVering OF manure, aud mulch them with
straw, that they may the sooner catch up
In their growth, with the trees native
sound roots.
am Of the opinion, and think it q rea
sonable one, that if tree is protected
nom all casualties, and the diseases to
Which it is subject attended to by applica
ton OF proper remedies, there is no reason
that it ever should die, until it does SO ii
obedience to that fixed law of Nature tina
has Fixed the brand of death" upon al
sublunary, vital existence, both animal ant
vegetable. Doloel.