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, an cuturw,*i| * 1 — ■Cm i«Urj k« «rtwi RcreTWith pur unaurpaiaed advantages o' toll and climate, there la aearcely any vegetable, fruit, or eerial cf the tern perate tone that we cannot rale# In the ^ j rich ore.ion of country adjacant to Vlekaburg. We have hill, boUom and } awamp land, affording every variety of altuation and aoll suitable to the different kiudaol garden and held plain*, yet there are many of ataple production and contnropllon which are largely, or entirely, Imported from abroad by ua. Among them la tbe healthful and delleioua celery, the in-diapeoalble accompaniment of the Cbrlatmaa turkey, for which we are dependent on higher latltudn*. The economical demand* of the time* auggeataj that we onght to ralm everything ol tbia kind at bomr, and be I* a public benefactor who takes the flrat atep in Ibat direction. Celery la not a neeeatl-ty, it la true, but neither lathe Mlt;h po*1 tato; yet both are wrlcom* and whole-» ! aomn addition* io the family table and ® ought to bo made pleotifui and cheap! e ! by producing them at home. It la a d prevalent conviction that cei»*ry cannot y be raiaed here. Wo have alwaa be- J n lieved this to be a roiatake, and all I doubt about It la now r*moved by I •ample* of excellent, eilap celery, aeul u« by Ur. G. L R cord. We pubii-li r* bla note u us, hoping that other* will be led to experiment, not only with d I celery, but with all the vegetable* for ’• j which we now aend ao much money up |if North:Vicxaauio Dec 11,1177, editor of ike Herald:I- Uf the small lot of c-lery I ratted tbl* I A j past teatno. 1 aand ylt;m « few •ulka. I J, | planted verv little, as ao dxperiraon», a« 1 bad bean frequently told celery ctild not ® . be railed in Vickaburr I perseverod, and r 1 hill f tr my aU«r*e« frlt;* u home irom itiv r. .Mtaef beptcmber (the bleaching iraiou); r ; 1 abouM bavtt had at floe and large celery i aa I have ever aeeo; a« It la, tkia la tbe , 1 Wodureal and room palatable I bare «v. r 0 ; eaten. Tb a ta ibe flrat I over planted, or J d 1 ?v«r aaa planted or grown. It «aa ratae i c on very nomPable groun i for it* growth, j 4 I being very high and dr». Hoping my auc- I oeaa may Induce otbera to grow it, I am, i air, youra uuly. (J. L. Kxcumpr —
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Vicksburg Weekly Herald
Vicksburg, Mississippi, US
Fri, Jan 04, 1878
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