. 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. 270 CELERY self-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, 1 to 2 inches in circumference, light green, becoming pure white when blanched, ridges 9, fibrovas- cular bundles 13 i
. 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. 270 CELERY self-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, 1 to 2 inches in circumference, light green, becoming pure white when blanched, ridges 9, fibrovas- cular bundles 13 imbedded in green cells, leaflets large, borne on slender divisions of the mam stalk, turning light colored and sometimes nearlj' pure white when the. 399. Celery plant trimmed 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 Marlu't. 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, flbrovascular bundles 13 or 15, imbedded in green cells; leaHets thick, rounded in outline, deeply i-l'ti. n i h nm -IimIIow, each terminating in a whitish pni 111 ii i i nstriction where the lower pair of lealji ! i. ! ii''stalk, and the stalk is lighter colored lirn i hm . I i ,\ here; above this puiiit the eeiitral stalk tupers i-a|iiilly to the end. Tlie Iviily Arlington celery is a sub-variety of the JI, tioii of the self-blanching va the background with the (;<â !. .Solid, Schumacher, Perle le ImmihI iJose.âA tall, red variety, kind of this class. It was ;li Henderson, but it never has been < -A popular kind before the introduc- liaii any other i
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