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notwithstanding- the drouth. One day the thermometer stood 112 

 degrees in the shade. That day we lost'several thousand plants. I 

 find that Golden Heart dwarf is the best to stand the heat, the cold 

 and the drouth. I get the same price in St. Joe as the Kalamazoo 

 celery, which, as you know has the highest reputation. It makes, with 

 careful cultivation from 150 to 300 dozen per acre. We plant our seed 

 beds just as soon as the ground can be worked in the spring. Plant 

 like tobacco seed and firm the earth on the seed, as the celery seed, 

 is very small ; shade the bed with light brush or lath. We put the 

 plants out in the middle or latter half of June, sometimes in July. The 

 growth that makes the celery we eat is made late in the fall after the 

 late rains. From the loth to the 20th of October is the time we usually 

 take in the crop. For keeping we place it in a trench just the depth of 

 the celery's length. We cover, with an open space above the celery, 

 ♦ and leave an opening to the air above, every two or three rods. If any 

 one wishes to engage in market gardening I would advise him to get 

 Peter Henderson's Gardening for profit, a book that has been worth 

 $500 to me. 



EEPORT OF COMMITTEE OX NOMEXCLATURE. 



T. W. GAUNT, MARYVILLE. 



Your Committee on Nomenclature has observed that parties who 

 are introducing new varieties of fruits are naming them one name, 

 which is in conformity to the recommendation of the Hon. Marshall P. 

 Wilder. 



The name of each new fruit should consist of one word, easy of 

 pronunciation. We feel assured that all the pomologists of Missouri 

 "will approve of but one name for all new fruits. Long names are al- 

 ways objectionable. We would recommend, that all new fruits which 

 are not esteemed valuable and worthy of general culture, be passed 

 and considered worthless, and that all new fruits be thoroughly tested 



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