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GARDENING. 



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petuate some of these more desirable 

 plants? Because the bother of selection 

 and perpetuation is too great and won't 

 pay. Anything we can perpetuate true 

 to type from seed is all right, but when it 

 comes to increasing the stock by divisi6n 

 the people won't do it, there is too much 

 trouble about it compared with raising 

 the plants from seed. 



FLflNTINO CELERY. 



A correspondent asks: "Do you advise 

 celery to be grown in trenches, or on the 

 surface and then earthed up?" 



In trenches, even at the risk of being 

 called old logy. As a rule market gar- 

 deners plant in rows on the level, as they 

 would cauliflower or any other crop. We 

 mark oft" our rows 3 V2 to 4-V^ feet apart, 

 according to whether we are going to 

 plant one or two rows in it; and in our 

 best land we make them 5 feet apart. 

 Then we throw out a tiench about 10 or 

 12 inches wide and J- to 5 inches deep. 

 Scatter some short manure in this and 

 fork it under, making the earth quite fine. 

 Then plant. Now if dry weather strikes 

 us, and we have got to water freely, the 

 trench will hold the water to the plants; 

 when planted on the surface watering cel- 

 ery is a tedious job, and the plants don't 

 alw.ays get as much as they would if it 

 didn't run away so easily. And when it 

 comes to earthing up, especially if boards 

 are used, the trench has great advantages 

 over the level system. Then again if we 

 go by the quality of the mature celery — 

 well," we are going to stick to the trench. 



The CornWorm.— We a wait the coming 

 of the first mess ot swett corn about as 

 anxiously as we do the first picking of 

 strawberries, but how disgusting and 

 disappointing it is when we find that 

 every ear of the early corn is infested and 

 channelled by the dirty looking larvc-e of 

 the corn worm. Just as soon as the corn 

 silks we look out for these worms. The 

 moth lays its eggs among the silk. In a 

 few daj'S they hatch out and the young 

 larvje make their way to the ear, begin- 

 ning at the end of it. Then is the time to 

 catch them. We go over every ear, open 

 it a little bit at the end to see if there are 

 any worms in it, and kill them if there 

 are. With this care we get nice corn; 

 without it the corn is practically des- 

 troyed. Any hills niisse(i are sure to be 

 infested. Tedious as it is, it is the only 

 real remedy. 



The Vecetaiile Garden.— Our practi- 

 cal notes on this subject in last issue are 

 largely applicable to work 'to be done 

 now, and to avoid repetition we refer our 

 readers to them. 



When you write an 

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 that you saw the adv. 

 in Qardeninq. 



10.000 Berberis Thuubergii, \y~ to 2 ft. 

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