. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. â 270 CELEEY CELERY flelf-blanching ana beautiful, and it has been claimed that this variety surpasses all others as a table decora- tion. Leaf-stalk below the lower pair of leaflets 8 to 10 inches long, ] to 2 inches in circumference, light green, becoming pure white when blanched, ridges 9, flbrovas- â cular
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. â 270 CELEEY CELERY flelf-blanching ana beautiful, and it has been claimed that this variety surpasses all others as a table decora- tion. Leaf-stalk below the lower pair of leaflets 8 to 10 inches long, ] to 2 inches in circumference, light green, becoming pure white when blanched, ridges 9, flbrovas- â cular bundles 13 imbedded in green cells; leaflets large, borne on slender divisions of the main stalk, turning light colored and sometimes nearly pure white when the. 399. Celery plant trimmed lor market. plants approach maturity. This variety often requires artificial ripening to reduce the strong flavor, in addition to what is necessary to whiten the stalks. The Pink Plume is a nearly related variety, having reddish stalks but is hardly equal to the preceding kind. Boston Market. âAn old variety, that has been grown in the vicinity of Boston since about 1850. Plants low and spreading, very dark green and glossy, forming numer- ous secondary crowns, leaf-stalks short and .stout, ridges 9 or 11, with shallow furrows between them, fibrovascular bundles 13 or 15, imbedded in green cells; leaflets thick, rounded in outline, deeply cleft, serrations shallow, each terminating in a whitish point. There is a constriction where the lower pair of leaflets unite with the stalk, and the stalk is lighter colored here than elsewhere; above this point the central stalk tapers rapidly to the end. The Early Arlington celery is a sub-variety of the Boston Market. Oolden fi'eaj-i. âA popular kind before the introduc- tion of the self-blanching varieties, but now placed in the background with the Golden Half Dwarf, White Solid, Schumacher, Perle le Grande, and Alpha. Hose.'âA. tall, red variety,
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