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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



If a boy or girl is available to drop the plants, a man can set prac- 

 tically double the number that he could alone and one good planter 

 will set as fast as one can drop them. No dibble or other tool is used in 

 making the hole to receive the i)]ant, but the setter, straddling the row 

 on his knees, which are generally protected with knee pads, takes the 

 plant up with one hand while making the hole to receive it with the 

 forefinger of the other hand. (Fig. G). The plant is then set with its 

 crown slightly below the top of the ground and the soil pressed firmly 

 around the root. On clay soils, greater care must be exercised not to 

 set the plants too deep but on muck lands and sandy soils, there is not 

 so murh danger of the soil injuring the hearts of the plants. 



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Fig. 6. — Transplanting: The soil is first watered. The plant is then taken up with one hand, as 

 the hole is made with the forefinger of the other. 



DISTANCES. 



The distance to plant celery depends much upon the variety, season, 

 methods of blanching and intensiveness practiced. Where celery is to 

 be blanched by boards, the rows may be set from eighteen inches to 

 three feet apart while celery which is to be blanched with soil is com 

 inonly set from four to six feet ajjart. At Kalamazoo and Muskegon, 

 where early celery is grown, the first planting is set in rows about three 

 feet apart and the second crop is planted later between these rows. Some- 

 tiriK's only every alternate row is thus interplanted at first (Fig. 2) but 

 a late crop is afterward set in the vacant ])laccs. This will leave a space 

 of six feet for blanching the last croj) with soil. When a summer crop 

 is grown alone and the celery is to be blanched with boards, the rows 

 are set from eighteen inches to two feet apart. (Fig. 8). In other sec- 



