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plough it. We do not sink trenches any more — merely plough it — we cultivate on the 

 surface. The insect keeps eating off the outside leaves. 



Mr. GoTT. — Will the gentleman state what varieties he has had that experience with. 



Mr. Taylor. — The small size grows solid and good. The pipe stuff is no good for 

 the market at all. We cannot find out anything that will stop the insect. 



Mr. Bucke. — ^There is a great deal of celery grown down at Ottawa. It grows nat- 

 urally in low ground. It is a kind of swamp plant. At Ottawa they grow it in black 

 muck, and they find that in deep black muck it grows best. I have seen splendid crops 

 grown in that way without any manure at all. They find that it keeps better in the win- 

 ter in the muck than in sand. It almost always rots if kept in sand in the winter time. 



Mr. Woodward. — I grow enough celery to eat, and I am surprised that the Ameri- 

 can people use so little celery as they do in their families. Of all the vegetables I know 

 of I do not know of anything, aside from the potato, that is more indispensable to a fam- 

 ily's welfare and enjoyment as celery ; and I do not know of anything that is more easily 

 grown, provided you have a supply of water. I grow the celery for my family in my city 

 lot. I have grown this year 70 rows 60 feet long. They have had all the celery they 

 wanted to use from the time it was large enough, although it is on the table three times a 

 day, and I have enough yet to last till April. There are two things requisite in growing 

 celery. One is to have the ground rich, and the other is to have plenty of water. That 

 which I want to use in the fall I hill ; that which I want for winter use I do not hill, or 

 only enough to keep it up and keep it close. I take those deep boxes such as men's rub- 

 bers come in ; I set the box right on the end, take up the celery with all the dirt I can 

 get adhering to it, put a little light loam across the end of the box, lay in the celery, 

 till in around the roots with the soil in which it grew, and spread some loam on 

 top. Then I lay on top of that another tier of celery, and so on until I fill the 

 box. I then carry the box into the cool part of the cellar, and, if I want to water 

 it, I go and pour a pail on there, and it will absorb into the bottom of the box. I 

 was looking at my celery the other day, and there is plenty of it grown up new in 

 the box. I buy my plants at the gardener's. I have forgotten the name of the celery I 

 have this year, but I like it better than any I ever had. It is a purple celery. It has 

 more of the distinctive flavour of the celery than any of the gifeen celeries I have ever 

 grown. It does not look so well on the table as the green celeries, but in taste it is very 

 much better. Mr. Storrs, of Michigan, has a way that seems to me fully as good as mine 

 where it is available. That is, instead of filling in with loam, he uses packing moss such 

 as the nurserymen use ; and where that is obtainable I think it is preferable to the loam, 

 and very possibly it would keep the celery just as fresh. 



A Member. — Have you an insect 1 



Mr. Woodward.— In very dry weather we have a little trouble with the insect un- 

 less we have plenty of water. During the very dry weather this summer I set the water 

 running on my celery plot, and it ran about three quarters of the way across. My little 

 boy shut it off ; I did not notice it ; and in less than a week you could see the line that 

 the water went to by the size of the celery. And the start it thus got it maintained until 

 it was time to take it in in the fall. 



Mr. Beadle. — With regard to variety of celery, the one that has pleased me best is 

 the one that we know by the name of the Dwarf Sandringham. We do not want those 

 large, coarse green kinds. It is some years since I have grown any of that kind of celery. 

 It is undesirable for table use in comparison with the dwarf varieties. I have never tried 

 Mr. Woodward's variety of purple celery, and perhaps he is correct in regard to it ; but 

 there is a sweet, nutty flavour about this Dwarf Sandingham celery that is very agreeable 

 to me, and I believe to all persons who have used it. With regard to the cultivation of 

 celery, I have known what Mr. Bucke said about it to be true. There is a part of my 

 grounds that is a black, mucky spot, and water goes there in the spring, and fall some- 

 times. We have put the celery there of late years, finding it grows better there — I sup- 

 pose from the very reason that there is more moisture there. This being a very dry season 

 the celery stood still through the summer, and I saw the effect of insects on the leaf. I 

 did not examine it enough to ascertain whether it was the thrip or not, although I thought 

 it looked like the thrip's work ; but after the autumn rains came on we had such an open fall 



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