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gan, where they keep it till the first of April. In the pit system it 

 bleaches all right. By putting it in about the middle of October, 

 and then having a window in the end so you will have light and so 

 it can be aired on mild days, it will keep without any trouble. Mine 

 is in very good shape at the present time, and if it had been decent 

 weather I would have brought a bunch. 



Mrs. Kennedy : We raise a good deal of it, but we have never 

 been able to bleach the green varieties. We have left the root on, 

 and we have trimmed it, but all we have been able to save was the 

 new growth. We have trenched, and we have put it in a cellar. 

 We have a cellar made on purpose for it. Some way or other we 

 have not been able to bleach the green varieties, and all we get is the 

 new growth, and they say we raise the best celery in the country. 

 It is the new growth, and that is why they like it better. 



Mr. Baldwin : The white variety is to fool people. The White 

 Plume is not fit for a pig to eat. If you give them a white stalk 

 they will declare it is better than the green. You have got to fool 

 people a good deal, I will admit that. (Laughter.) 



Mrs. Kennedy. We have had difficultv with the White Plume. 

 It will not keep well. The yellow sells nicely too, but I would like 

 to learn how to bleach it. 



Mr. Baldwin : You will find that for early use you will have 

 to bank it up with dirt. I think some of the green varieties bleach 

 better than others. I am not here to advertise varieties, but I have 

 found Evan's Triumph bleaches very nicely, and I have found it 

 superior to the Giant Pascal in many respects. It is used a great 

 deal through the east. It is a healthy celery ; it will not rust or 

 blight. 



Mrs. Kennedy : What causes the hollow stalk ? 



Mr. Baldwin : Partly the soil and partly the season. 



Mrs. Kennedy : We got the New Rose one year and planted 

 that, and every bunch had a hollow stalk. 



Mr. Baldwin : I think it must have been partly due to the 

 ground it was planted in. You probably did not feed it right, and 

 it was very likely overgrown. It was probably a favorable season, 

 and it was overgrown. 



Mrs. Kennedy : We thought that was the cause but did not 

 know. 



Mrs. J. M. Underwood : Have you had any experience with 

 the pink variety of celery? 



Mr. Baldwin : Yes, a few years ago I had quite a good deal 

 of it, but as I am a market gardener I must consider the question 

 of what the people want. If' they want anything inferior I have 

 to raise it. In the old country, especially in England, that is their 

 main celery. The people do not buy it as readily here as they do 

 there. It is a fine celery for late use, and if you wish to grow it 

 for private use you can do no better. It is almost always solid. 



Mr. Frank Yahnke : I would like to ask the gentleman whether 

 he has ever raised celeriac? 



Mr. Baldwin : I have, and yet the Germans down our way would 

 not look at it. 



