140 MISCELLANEOUS COOL PLANTS. 
or seed-pans. The young plants grow very slowly, and 
we make no effort to hasten them. About a month after 
the seeds are sown, the plants are pricked out into other 
flats, where they are allowed to stand 3 or 4 inches apart 
each way. A month or so later, they are transplanted 
into beds, following lettuce, cauliflower, chrysanthemums, 
or other crops. It will thus be seen that for two months 
or more the plants take up little or no room, for the flats 
are placed in vacant places here and there throughout the 
house, and they need little other care than watering. 
They should be kept cool—in a house used for lettuce, 
violets, carnations and the like—for if one attempts to 
force them they will likely 
run to seed. When the 
plants are finally  trans- 
planted, we prefer to put 
them in solid beds with- 
out bottom heat. 
In six weeks to two months 
after the plants are turned into 
their permanent quarters they will 
be ready to bleach, and this opera- 
tion has caused us more trouble 
than all other difficulties combined. 
Our first thought was to set the 
plants very close together, so that 
they would bleach themselves, 
after the manner of the ‘‘New 
Celery Culture,’’ but it would not 
work. The plants ran too much 
to foliage, and they tended to 
damp-off or rot where they 
were too close. We next 
tried darkening the house, 
but without success. We then attempted to bleach the 
plants by partially burying them in sand in a cellar, but 
this also failed. Finally, we tried various methods of 
45. Winter celery in bleaching 
paper. 
