STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 67 



Mr. Budlong — I expected my article would be criticised for 

 what it did not recommend, and I find that considerable is left 

 out. Celery is one of the things I expected would be mentioned. 

 I started to write of a vegetable garden containing the number 

 recommended last year, with two additions. As to celery, I find 

 it very hard to raise except on ground especially fitted for it. If 

 the ground is sufficiently moist and watered from underneath, it 

 may do well. If you water the ground, or if you have sufficient 

 rains in the fall, you can raise celery successfully, but on the 

 ordinary prairie soil I would not recommend any man who is so 

 situated as to be able to buy a few bunches at a reasonable price, 

 to spend time trying to raise it. As to having the garden near 

 the house. Of course there are reasons why some may want it 

 there. If a man wants his wife and children to do the garden 

 work, then it may be better near the house; and, of course, it is 

 more convenient in gathering for the table. I think that if any 

 of you will try the plan of planting the garden away from the 

 house where you can use the plow and cultivator, you will never 

 after cramp it up in a little fenced patch near the house. There 

 is really little more need of the hoe in the garden than there is 

 in growing corn, provided you have the garden where you can 

 use the common farm tools. 



President Dunlap — Mr. Budlong has about 400 acres in garden 

 near Chicago, and I presume he is able to answer any ques- 

 tions. 



Mr. Gay — As to raising celery, Mr. Budlong has been talking 

 about raising it for market, when our discussion is for raising it 

 in the kitchen garden. I raise it and have little trouble with it. 

 After I have gathered my sweet corn I put out celery on the 

 same ground, the ground of course being in ridges and hollows 

 from the cultivation of the corn. I cultivate the ridges a little, 

 hoeing in a little dirt until about Sept. 1st. Then I open up a 

 ditch about a foot wide and two feet deep and put in a frame of 

 boards about three feet wide and as long as the trench. Of 

 course the ends of the frame must be kept partly open for ven- 

 tilation, and you can go and get your celery any time until spring. 

 There is great difference between celery so grown and that which 

 is shipped in. I know farmers who stop on their way to town 

 and buy celery of me, possibly to the amount of $15 per year, 



