FouciNG-HousE Miscellanies. 



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CELEKY UNDER 

 GLASS. 



ELERY practically goes out 

 of the market in April. The 

 stored crop is then exhausted, 

 and until the earliest field product 

 received, in July, celery is not to be 

 had. There should be some means of 

 supplying 'the demand in May and 

 June. Some three or four years ago, 

 we turned our attention to this prob- 

 lem and we have been working at it 

 until the present time. "We now feel 

 that it is a comparatively easy matter to 

 grow celery for late spring and early 

 summer use. 



We sow the seed in late fall or early 



winter, in flats or seed-pans. The 



young plants grow very slowly, and we 



make no efi^ort to hasten them. About 



a month after the seeds are sown, the 



plants are pricked out into 



other flats, where thev are 



allowed to stand three or four 



Winter grown celery a-bleaching. iuches apart Cach Way. A 



month or so later, they are transplanted into beds, following lettuce 

 cauliflower, chrysanthemums or other crops. It will thus be seen 

 that for two months or more the plants take up little or no room, 

 for the flats are placed in vacant places here and there throughout 

 the house ; and they need Httle other care than watering. They 

 should be kept cool — in a house used for lettuce, violets, carnations, 

 and the like — for if one attempts to force them they will likely 

 run to seed. When the plants are finally transplanted, we like to 

 put them in solid beds without bottom heat. 



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