By W. W. Ramson. 1886. This is a small pamphet of 15 pages, evidently intended to present the merits of a new variety, Ramson's Early Arlington, for which it is claimed that it is '* three weeks earlier than the old stand-by known as Boston Market. It blanches easily and quickly." This will be a good point with lovers of chicken salad, to whom chicken salad is no chicken salad unless veritable celery is an ingredient therein. The pamphlet is an excellent practical treatise on this vegetable. Mr. R. believes that, to be profitable, the cost of raising must be below $4 per 100.

Mr. R. seems to doubt the existence of the larvae of the celery fly, as a cause of injury to the plant. He believes that the insect is one of those that simply follow decaying matter. We do not know what is the insect that attacks the celery about Boston, but that there is a fearful pest that attacks perfectly healthy plants in some places, is as well known as that the rose slug attacks roses, or the Colorado beetle the potato.