TEN YEARS EXPERIENCE IN CELERY CULTURE. 21/ 



Mr. Yahnke : I have been growing it ever since I began to 

 till the ground, and I expect to grow it as long as I have a piece of 

 ground to grow it on. I grew a lot this year, and it is one of the 

 finest dishes we have got. It has the advantage in that it can be 

 used in more ways than the stalk celery, and it is just as brittle, and 

 it can be used in so many ways. It can be used as a vegetable or 

 a salad. It has a root like a turnip. I have got some this year 

 weighing five or six pounds. They can be kept like the beet, and 

 if they are sliced like a cucumber and seasoned with sugar and 

 vinegar and put on the table as a salad, or mixed with potato salad, 

 it makes a delicious dish for anybody. It is as good a vegetable 

 as we have. It can be planted anywhere 8x20 inches apart. 



A HUGE FLORAL CLOCK FOR THE ST. LOUIS EXPO- 

 SITION. 



The floral clock is immediately north of the Agricultural Build- 

 ing, and to the visitor appears to be made entirely from contribu- 

 tions from the floral world. The mechanism of the clock is buried, 

 and the huge dial, loo feet in diameter, shows its face six inches 

 above the ground. The dial, the hands — the minute hand being 

 fifty feet long and moving five feet at each move — and all the frame 

 are so covered with flowers as to quite conceal any mechanical con- 

 trivances. 



The numerals marking the hour are fifteen feet in length and are 

 made of bright colored coleus, a foliage plant that grows dense and 

 may be pruned with the gardener's shears and kept symmetrical 

 without fear of impairing the growth of the plant. 



In the circle surrounding the numerals are twelve collections of 

 distinct plants, each collection being twenty-five feet long and twelve 

 feet wide. Nature has ordained that each of these plants should 

 open its blossom at a certain hour of the day, and the great floral 

 clock shows how the laws of nature are as exact as the mechanical 

 laws discovered by man. As the hands of the giant floral clock 

 reach the numeral naming a certain hour, the flowers in the great 

 bed at the back of the hour so designated begin to open their buds 

 and to exhale the perfume peculiar to the plant, and so on around' 

 the great circle throughout the day. 



Concealed in a picturesque tower is the massive machinery, 

 weighing tons and controlling the powerful steel shaft that extends 

 under the center of the floral dial, more than fifty feet distant. 

 Above the tower is suspended a sweet toned bell, weighing 5,000 

 pounds, on which the hour is announced. The sound waves thus 

 created penetrate to the extreme ends of the grounds. With the 

 first sound of the bell, the doors of the tower swing open, and the 

 machinery that propels the great timepiece is exposed for a minute 

 to the view of the public. 



The entire center of the face of the mammoth floral clock, the 

 space inside the circle created by the numerals and seventy feet in 

 diameter, is composed of alternanthera. a foliage plant which is com- 



