. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. MV GARDEN. solidity of stem, and in tenderness. No kind is worth growing unless it is solid, as a pithy stem is very disagreeable. We grow chiefly a kind called Ivery's Nonsuch, but add one or two other kinds every year from the seedsmen's catalogues. There are one or two dwarf kinds of great excellence. There is a variety of celery with a bulbous root, called Celeriac (fig. 140), much used at Vienna and in other parts of the Con- tinent, but little grown in this countr
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. MV GARDEN. solidity of stem, and in tenderness. No kind is worth growing unless it is solid, as a pithy stem is very disagreeable. We grow chiefly a kind called Ivery's Nonsuch, but add one or two other kinds every year from the seedsmen's catalogues. There are one or two dwarf kinds of great excellence. There is a variety of celery with a bulbous root, called Celeriac (fig. 140), much used at Vienna and in other parts of the Con- tinent, but little grown in this country. The seed is sown like that of celery, and planted out in rich ground. The bulbs are boiled, cut into slices, and served with oil and vinegar. It forms a very delicious salading for winter us^. The bulbs which I have observed in the market-places abroad are much larger than those which have been produced in my garden ; nevertheless some should invariably be grown. In Scotland, celeriac forms no bulbs, and has only fibrous roots. In some years the growth of celery is difficult on account of the ravages of a leaf-eating grub (see Insects), which lives between the two skins of the leaf and which causes the plant to rot. The only remedy is to pick off the part of the leaf affected, taking care to remove as leaf as Fig. 140.— Celeriac, ^ diam. Fig. 141.—Cucumber, \ size. Cucumbers {Ciicumis sativa, fig. 141) form an article of salading which we have all the year round. Even in winter we obtain cucumbers when the sun vouchsafes to shine, but when it does not appear for weeks our plants go to grief For winter use we plant in August, and prefer Rollison's Telegraph. It is a httle difficult to get seeds of the true kind, and hence we frequently propagate by cuttings or layers, as a shoot six inches long, cut off at a joint and placed in cocoa-nut fibre, very freely roots, and soon makes a flowering and fruiting plant. In the same way a layer may be made of a larger shoo
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