. 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. istiiift from allother varieties, and it gained favor among growers rap-idly. Since 1892 or 1893 it has been the leading summerkind, and more generally planted in market-gardensthan any other. The plants are stocky, they can beplanted closely, conveniently blanched with hoards, CELERY 269 packed in small space when bunch
. 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. istiiift from allother varieties, and it gained favor among growers rap-idly. Since 1892 or 1893 it has been the leading summerkind, and more generally planted in market-gardensthan any other. The plants are stocky, they can beplanted closely, conveniently blanched with hoards, CELERY 269 packed in small space when bunched, the bunches keepremarkably well, are exceptionally attractive when ex-posed for sale in the market, and the stalks are neverdisagreeably bitter. Leaf-stalks below the lower pairof leaflets 6 to 8 inches long and from IJi to ]?4 inchesin circumference, generally with 9 distinct ridges and13 rather small fibrovascular bundles, the latter not im-bedded in green cells, the ridges flattened and thefurrows between them shallow; leaf-bearing part of thestalk 12 to 14 inches long, with a decided constrictionwhere the lower pair of leaflets unite with it; leafletsthick, sharply serrate, usually wedge shaped at the baseand with characteristic yellow specks, which increase in. 398. Blanching Celery by wrapping it with paper. numbers as the plants mature until the entire foliageappears to be of a light golden hue. The Paris Red Ribbed celery is a very dwarf variety,having thick leaflets with yellow specks in them like theParis Golden, but the plants are smaller, not so full inthe centers and the leaf stalks are shaded with variety of recent introduction, known as theBroad Riliheil celery, is evidently nearly related to thepreceding kinds. The foliage shows the yellow specks,the leaf stalks are large and rounded on the edges, andthe plants mature early, but they are open in the strains of this variety have reddish leaf stalks. fmte PI by Peter H
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