242 • STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



After your celery is up, with its heads above the trenches, or along about the 

 last of September, you can begin to fill in the trenches ; but if at that date the 

 weather should continue to be hot, the work of filling trenches must be deferred 

 until the weather begins to cool, even if you have to wait until October, as it will 

 not do to fill the trenches.until cool weather sets in. After your first filling in of 

 the trenches level with surface, if no frosts come on, wait 10 or 15 days, then till 

 up to within an inch or so of the top of your plants. If then frost still keeps off, 

 wait 10 or 12 days more, rounding up your earth nearlycoveringyour celery entire, 

 remaining in that condition until cool weather sets in, when it can be taken up, 

 cleaned and trenched, and if kept from frost and rains it can be successfully kept 

 until February, and I have kept it until the 1st of March 



In the last few years great advancement and progress has been made in the 

 growing of this most valuable vegetable, and where five years ago one dozen 

 bunches were consumed, today we find 100 dozen bunches are called for. Besides 

 this, the medical fraternity are giving this vegetable much thought and attention, 

 and many preparations are now on the market lor the benefit of an ailing public. 



DISCUSSION. 



A. J. Blake — When I used to grow celery, I took up the plants 

 before cold freezing weather, fixed a place in the cellar, covering the 

 floor with about three inches of soil. I set the plants upon this soil, 

 pressing the soil close around the roots. We sprinkled the celery once 

 or twice a week. The house-keeper could get the celery when she 

 wanted it without calling upon the men to grub it from the frozen 

 ground in the garden. This is not theory. This I did. It is a very 

 simple thing. 



Prof. Porter — I have been growing celery and eating it for 40 years. 

 For 20 years I lost two-thirds of all I grew, for the lack of some good 

 way of keeping it in good condition. I first tried taking it up and 

 packing in boxes with Sphagum moss. This spoiled the flavor of the 

 celery. The best results were obtained by covering it up right where 

 it grew ; but it was often hard to get out when we wanted it. 



I now grow White Plume, Golden Self- blanching and Golden 

 Heart. I grow in rows five feet apart, banking only enough to keep 

 it upright in position. Celery that I wish to keep for late use, I put 

 three rows together, cover it well, well drained and put loose boards 

 over it. What I want to get at during the winter, I put in a trench 

 4 feet wide and 18 inches deep, I seta row of 2x4 studs 4 feet high 

 along each side of the trench and set rafters over it, cover the sides 

 and top with boards, and then throw the earth up over all, and put on 

 straw or coarse manure when severe cold weather comes to keep it 

 from freezing. You must absolutely keep dirt from the heart of your 

 celery, or it will speck and spoil. 



S. W. Gilbert — I have a piece of ground shaped like a horse-shoe, 

 containing 12 or 13 acres, that is low and wet ; the outlet is narrow. 



