. 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. 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
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. 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. 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. —An 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. —A 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.'—A. tall, red variety, better known than any other kind of this class. It was introduced in 1886 by Peter Henderson, but it never has been extensively grown for market. Leaf-stalk red or purplish, 10 to 15 inches long, IM to 2 inches in circumference, ridges 9, fibro- vascular bundles 13; leaflets dull green, thin, and the edges inclined to turn upward ; the whole plant tall, slender and rather hard to blanch. The young stalks retain the red color when blanched, and are exception- Ally attra