Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1880 — The Cultivation of Celery. [ARTICLE]

The Cultivation of Celery.

To most pentma, a stalk of crisp, white celery is an always welcome and delicious “relish.” Thqae who have tried it find properly cooked, celery equally pleasing to the palate. No more whNesome vegetable grows; and now that it is found to be not only gastronomicaliy agreeable but of high medical virtue as a nervine, its popularity M constantly on the increase. There is no reason why every garden may not have a supplyof this excellent vegetable; and The American Chttfoafor gives some seasonable hints on tabes* mode of cultivating it on a small scale. Those who only care to raise a little for their own use are advised to buy rather than jaise the plants, as the cheaper Zand that was heavily manured in the spring and a naturally rich soil is the beet adapted to this plant. A few years ago it was thought neewary to dig trenches in which to plant it; now, however, this is abandoned, but it requires very deep tillage, and it in best to draw two farrows, the same aa for sugar-beets or mangolds, and set them in the Bottom of the farrow. The land best adapted to it is* moist soil, as it is a mtft wata. plant. The time to set it out is from the middle to the last of July. The rows should be from four to five feet apart, and the plants separated ten inches in the row. After the first of September the soil should bedrawn up to the plants, to keep them compact as possible, and prevent the branches from spreading. The more and oftner they are banked up the better, ao as not to cover the center shoot or bud; if this is covered the plant will be smothered. There are a number of different varieties in cultivation, but they differ lees in celery than in any other vegetable. The excellence of this vegetable depends more upon culture than upon variety. About the last of October a trench is generally dug eighteen inches deep and twelve inches wide, in some dry place where water will not stand; the plant is then lifted with as much dirt around the roots as possible, that it may keep crisp, and it will continue to. gtow some. The row, when properly packed, should be covered with boards, over which • layer of straw or leaves should belaid to keep out the frost, and its preservation for winter use is secured..

A Bostonian traveling in England gives his experiences in the ZVaMcript of English extortion, as follows: I write it with she greatest unction and emphasis after my name, whenever lam asked to record it, \ ■*U. 8. Anot that I love England the less, but my country more and more: and I so regret that I forgot to bring with me an American flag and at least one torpedo for the approaching Fourth. Bnt I have found, whatever the honour and privilege of my birthright, it is not an economy to be recognized here as an American. And recognized as such, at once, you inevitably are. "But how did you know I am an American ? I said to a chatty, intelligent Englishman, who, like myself had possessed a doorway to get out of a quite heavy shower.” “I should not have known,” he answered, “had you not spoken.” And so my speech ‘‘betrayeth” me everywhere, and everywhere at a cost. An American is, by the average Englishman, supposed to carry t railway fa one pocket, and at least a silver mine in the other, with an ’ oil well as a reserve. He knows you. He spots you. You are his gudgeon. Wherever you go you hear of the foolish things Amerisans have done, until the English idea is that the American exists simply as a shilling and sixpence dropping machine, and he keeps the machine well at it They talk of ducks shedding water, but one sheds these silver favors at every step. It is no economy to be known as an American. It is a luxury, an extravagance, an imprudence. / • •