396 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



sides opening into the outer air so as to procure at any time a free circulation 

 across the room. 



These points settled, the supply of vegetables should mostly be placed in 

 boxes and barrels, with sand filling the interstices or else with a sod of earth 

 over each package. Moist sphagnum or moss, if placed upon the top of the 

 packages, will keep the vegetables fresh. Cabbages, even, may be packed in 

 this moss and perfectly preserved the whole winter. 



All vegetables that s^row in the ground (except sweet potatoes) need a cool 

 atmosphere in the cellar — close to freezing point. Sweet potatoes, squashes 

 and pumpkins will keep better on sand in a dry, warm chamber. 



Celery may be buried in sand standing the same as it does growing. By a 

 judicious selection and requisite care, a family may enjoy the rich things of 

 the garden the year round, and with a generous supply of vegetables there 

 will not be the racking of brains over *' What shall we have for dinner?" 

 that is so common among farm housewives. 



The writer of this has during the past season raised potatoes, beets, carrots, 

 cabbages, salsify, tomatoes, parsnips, peas, beans, melons, squashes, pump- 

 kins, celery, turnips, sweet corn and peppers in long rows so that it was very 

 little more work than to care for the same area all in potatoes, and any farmer 

 can do the same thing, furnishing his table with every delicacy of the garden 

 at very little expense, and by exercising common care in preserving the fruits 

 of the garden can make his wife constantly laugh over the generous assort- 

 ment from which to choose a dinner. Pork and potatoes may remain as a 

 basis, but it is well to build broader tlian this foundation. Do not wait too 

 long before making these suggested preparations for winter's comfort. 



S. Q. Lent. 



KEEPING CELERY OVER WINTER. 



I have just noticed in the Michigan Pomological Report for 1877 an article 

 on "winter keeping of celery" (copied from the New York Tribune), in 

 which the writer says in substance ''that one of the very best methods for 

 small lots for family use is to bury a flour barrel in the ground, mixing in the 

 bottom about nine inches of thin mud, placing the celery upright with the 

 balls of roots in the mud, and covering the tops over with mounds of straw, 

 leaves or manure ; or the barrel may be placed in a cool cellar, bedding the 

 roots in thin mud, as in the other case, and it will keep a long time. In 

 quantity, it may be stored in trenches about two feet wide and of sufficient 

 depth to take all in except the leaves when standing upright. The plants 

 must be packed closely together, allowing a ball of earth to remain on the 

 roots of each ; bank up slightly on either side ; cover about two feet deep 

 with dry leaves and place over this a roof -like structure of boards to ward off 

 the rain." 



The method adopted last fall by the present writer is less expensive, more 

 convenient to get the celery for use in the winter, and the results were all 

 til at could bo desired. It is only the extension of an idea obtained from 

 John Hutchings, of Detroit, an amateur grower of line celery. He puts 

 enough in his cellar to last until Christmas, while I put enough in to last 

 until May. The celery grew some distance from the hotise, and when taken 

 from the trench was packed upright in a wagon-box and drawn to the kitchen 



