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to be shipped to the States, and there 

 sold at $2.50 per barrel. It ought 

 not to recjuire much arithmetic to 

 convince them that it would pay 

 them to use ashes as well as our 

 friends across the border. 



This valuable fertilizer is especially 

 good for currants, gooseberries, straw- 

 berries, and, in fact, for all small 

 fruits, and also for everything else in 

 the garden. A favorite vegetable 

 with me is celery. Too much can- 

 not be said in favor of this excellent 

 vegetable, and certainly too little of 

 it is eaten ; even physicians and 

 druggists are beginning to recognize 

 the good qualities of celery, for you 

 may see in the druggist shop windows 

 beautiful pictures, setting forth the 

 wonderful cures by Paine's Celery 

 Compound, and guaranteeing to cure 

 all diseases of a rheumatic character ; 

 but why not use the celery in its 

 purity, just fresh out of the garden. 

 Once taste it, and the relish for it 

 increases, and you want more every 

 day. There are many vegetables 

 that can be grown as a second crop, 

 celery is one of these. It is some- 

 thing like the mangold and field tur- 

 nip, it grows best in the cool, moist 

 nights of the latter part of August, 

 September and forepart of October, 

 and it will take a very severe frost to 

 hurt it. 



Vou may put your plants in after 

 early potatoes, beets, onions, shallots, 

 peas, beans, and even after taking 

 up old strawberry beds. For the 

 more minute details of growing 

 celery, I would refer to an article in 

 the Canadian Horticulturist. 



When I began to grow more than 

 my family could consume, I made a 

 bargain with one of our local vege- 

 table pedlars to take my surplus 

 stock, but he could only come on 

 certain days, as the other days were 

 taken up in going out to the country 

 to sell vegetables to the farmers ! 



just think of it. This is carrying 

 coals to Newcastle with a vengeance. 

 Now friend-farmers, do not suffer 

 this reproach any more. Fence off 

 a (}uarter of an acre near the house, 

 give it a good dose of old manure 

 and plough it up. Do not forget a 

 corner for a few flowers ; it will 

 brighten the home for the girls • 

 another corner for strawberries, it 

 will be fun for the boys; another por- 

 tion for tomatoes, celery and other 

 vegetables, and my word for it you 

 will receive the blessings of your 

 wife and family, and everything will 

 look brighter and pleasanter, for 3'ou 

 will have everything fresh from the 

 garden, and the vegetable pedlar 

 will be a thing of the past. 



