"There is nothing new under the sun;" but anything differing from the ordinary received ideas of things is styled new. And it is in this sense that I have ventured to say that it is possible that, even in Celery-culture, there may be something new.

There is scarcely any vegetable that has been so much improved by cultivation as this. It appears that, because it has been improved so much, gardeners deem it incapable of being further improved, at least so far as the mode of cultivation is concerned. I hope that few have come to that conclusion concerning anything. I for one have not.

After all, I have nothing new to communicate; all I am to do is to give one suggestion which I have often revolved in my own mind, and which, I believe, if carried out with half the vigour which is applied to less profitable things, will prove so successful that henceforth many will adopt the plan; especially those whose garden-ground is limited, and who are loath to sacrifice a considerable portion for such a miserable return as has been afforded in too many cases this winter.

How many amateurs have sown their seed, trenched their ground, dug their trenches, applied a liberal dressing of manure, ay, have so humbled themselves as to go down on their very knees to earth them up carefully, and when at Christmas they went to " draw the pay " for their labour, found first one, then another, rotten; the third perhaps - perhaps not - just fit for use and no more! And how many gardeners will groan in spirit when they think of all their labour lost, and the importunities of the cook or butler! How few have sound Celery, fresh, crisp, and untainted, now (March 8th)! And how many might have it now and long after this, superior even to that which is dug in October or November!

Will anybody believe me when I say that all may 1 Or will anybody listen to the humble suggestion of an under-gardener? "There, the murder's out." I suppose none of your readers will believe in the sense of an tinder-gardener [Why not? - Ed.] If no practical man will, perhaps some amateur will. I can make no experiments on my own account; but I hope I will one fine morning find myself a "head-gardener, and then I will prove all things;" and then I may be listened to.

Grow your Celery in pots! that is something like the suggestion of an unfledged "under-gardener." Pots indeed! Celery in pots! ridiculous! It will take less trouble, and be far more satisfactory in the end - ay, far more profitable.

Try one dozen plants for once. When you put out your plants in your trenches select a few nice plants, pot them in a suitable compost, in a proper pot, give them ordinary attention (don't neglect water), and I venture to say that by the end of September or middle of October you will have nice, strong plants, which if bound up moderately firm with bast, and placed in any dry dark place, will throw up centre stalks, tenderer, sweeter, and in every way superior to those manure-flavoured, half-decaying stalks from your stereotyped trenches.

It will be less trouble too; for in the time you will dig trenches, manure, plant, and water them, you will surely pot and water an equal number of plants. It will be more profitable, for you can grow them in pots where nothing else will, or you can lift them from one place to another, so enabling you to crop the place which otherwise would have been devoted to Celery (a great point in limited places); and more, you will be able to keep frost, damp, slugs, and a host of other things away from your plants, and so be able to secure all your crop of Celery, instead of perhaps only a sixth - and that, too, in finer condition, and to a later period, than in the ordinary way. I do not say abolish your beds and trenches. I would still follow the most profitable old way of raising early crops; but for crops to keep up a proper supply from Christmas and after, I am convinced that by a method similar to that I have ventured to suggest, it can be done with far less trouble and with far better results. Will any one try, and at the end of the year state whether one score of plants grown and blanched as I have suggested does not prove equal to at least sixty in the open trenches 1 and surely twenty in pots will take less trouble to bring to perfection than sixty outside.

Twenty in pots will be equal to sixty in the trenches, because you cannot count on more than one sound one in three by this time, after such an unpropitious winter. I have scarcely ventured to lay down a rule, having no doubt that any one will be able to suit himself best according to circumstances.

Should any amateur, however, be anxious to adopt the method (and it is chiefly for such that I recommend it, for many amateurs have little spare ground to risk, and may still be desirous of having Celery all winter through), and be desirous of knowing how I would proceed, I will be most willing to lay down a rule whereby any one who follows it, may assure himself of success. Under-Gardener.