A CERERY GROWER'S METHODS 



WM. MORRIS, RODNEY, ONT. 



I BEGAN growing celery with some 

 3,500 plants. Of these plants 3,000 

 were ordered from Kalamazoo, Mich., with 

 the remainder from a local home grower. 

 The latter w^ere set out first, and although 

 they were extra well rooted, the Kalamazoo 

 plants are fast catching up to them. The 

 first plants were set out six inches apart, 

 but spread over the ground. The United 

 States plants were only put about two 

 inches apart. These latter plants grew 

 much straighter than the local plants. A 

 good plan, after the plants are in place, is 

 to tramp the ground down hard on each side 

 ■of the plant and leave them for three weeks 

 or more, until they get well rooted. For 

 cultivation purposes I use a Planet Jr. five 

 fly plow and a garden rake. Keep a fine 

 silt on top to draw the moisture. Draw the 

 fine dry earth up to the plant, but do not 

 cover the heart, or the centre will grow 

 •down instead of up. I did not trench the 



celery after the plants got nicely started. I 

 experimented on a portion on top of the 

 ground next to the plant, putting some lime 

 on part of a row, some wood ashes on part, 

 and left some ground wdth nothing on. I 

 cannot see much difference in the results as 

 yet. The plants are kept well soaked with 

 Bordeaux mixture for rust. Twelve inch 

 boards were placed against the celery on 

 top of what dirt I have pulled up to blanch 

 the plants. I use no water only to dibble 

 in plants. The colder the ground, the 

 better. The plants do not want too much 

 hot sun ; the shadier they are the better. 

 The soil best adapted for celery growing, 

 I find to be a sandy loam. Any ground that 

 will raise good potatoes will grow good 

 celery. Manure the ground in fall, plow in,' 

 and put on a top dressing of wood ashes. 

 Let this leach down during the winter and 

 spring and then plow in. This I intend do- 

 ing in the fall, after taking up my crop." 



An Exhibit of Sweet Peas Made By Ottawa School Children. 



Gr^t interest has been taken in Ottawa during the past couple of years in a school children's Sweet Pea competition which 

 has been conducted as the result of the generosity and through the active efforts of Mr. R. B. Whyte. Several hundred children 

 started in the competition this year, there being considerably over too entries in the exhibition which was held a few weeks ago. 

 Great good is being accomplished by this line of work which will be continued next year. 



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