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with too much earth at one time. I 

 raise the dwarf varieties, and have found 

 the London Red the best for late keep- 

 ing, also the best flavored according to 

 my j udgment. I have the trenches four 

 feet apart, and the plants six inches 

 apart in the trench. This, I think, is 

 as near as is convenient for earthing up. 

 Before I commence to earth up I 

 loosen the earth on each side of the 

 trench with a hoe. I then get down 

 on my hands and knees astride of the 

 row, and, while holding the stalks of a 

 plant together with one hand, I draw 

 the earth up with the other, pressing it 

 down firmly around the plant. The 

 best time to do this is when the ground 

 is a little moist, but not wet. This 

 process is called "handling," and by 

 many it is called hard, disagreeable 

 work ; but there is no work in the 

 garden that gives me more genuine 

 satisfaction. This first handling brings 

 the plants up nearly level with the sur- 

 face, and before the second earthing up 

 I run a cultivator between the rows. 

 I commence to harvest the celery for 

 winter about the first of November. 

 My way of storing is to make large 

 beds of it on the cellar bottom, setting 

 the celery upright, and not too close 

 together, and using earth enough to 

 cover the roots well. If the cellar is 

 dry the beds may be watered occasion- 

 ally, but in a damp cellar it would not 

 be necessary, and would be apt to induce 

 rot. — Rural New Yorker. 



THE CALLA LILY. 



This old plant is too well known to 

 require any extended notice. If the 

 bulbs or tubers of this lily be potted in 

 good soil about the middle of September, 

 and given a liberal supply of water at all 

 times, it will quickly start into growth 

 and give out its fine, large flowers from 

 December to May. Manure water is 

 very beneficial to this plant. After 



flowering, gradually withhold water, and 

 when the foliage shows signs of decay, 

 lay the pots on their sides and give no 

 further care until time for repotting, 

 when the tubers should be cleansed of 

 the old soil and repotted into new. 

 When grown in the sitting room the 

 leaves should have an occasional spong- 

 ing to prevent the accumulation of dust. 



THE TUBEROSE. 



fPoliantfies TuberosaJ. 



The original, single variety is a 

 native of India, and has for many years 

 been grown in large quantities in 

 Southern France, where the flowers are 

 used for manufacturing perfumery. 



The double variety, which is now 

 almost exclusively used for garden pur- 

 poses, is very much superior to the 

 single one in the size and appearance 

 of the flowers. Owing to the easy 

 manner in which they can be culti- 

 vated, they are found in almost every 

 garden, while their rich perfume and 

 clear white color have made them very 

 desirable for all sorts of floral designs. 



To make the flowering of Tuberoses a 

 success, it is indispensable to procure 

 sound bulbs, of good size. If the center 

 of the bulb, or " flower-germ," is not 

 perfectly sound, it is hopeless to expect 

 flowers ; and any bulb, be it ever so 

 large, that has flowered once, will not 

 bloom again. 



It is a common mistake among 

 amateurs to select the largest bulbs, 

 when buying. Frequently, the flower- 

 germ in large bulbs has been so far 

 advanced as to get kilhnl or injured by 

 the drying process which the bulbs 

 have to undergo to keep them sound 

 over winter. A medium-sized, well- 

 formed bulb, with a hard, sharp-pointed 

 neck, is the kind to be recommended, 

 as these can, with proper treatment, be 

 depended upon to flower successfully. 

 There is no way of telling, in the dry 



