SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING 

 The Golden Heart celery is grown mostly by 

 gardeners in the celery region of Kalamazoo, and 

 is set in rows four and one-half feet apart, and 

 four inches apart in the row; but it takes from 

 six to twelve of their roots to make one of ours. 

 They get about one cent per root for their celery, 

 and we sell ours for prices ranging from two to 

 ten cents per root. 



The varieties now most in favour are Paris 

 Golden, White Plume, Giant Pascal, and Boston 

 Market. The first-named is grown for earliest. 

 The plants may stand quite close in the row at 

 six or eight inches apart, and with rows only 

 20 inches apart. When set in this manner, every 

 other row is blanched by setting up boards, running 

 lengthwise, on each side of the row. The same 

 method may be followed with the intervening 

 rows, or they can be banked with earth after the 

 first have been blanched and gone to market. 

 Celery blanched with boards is more easily 

 cleaned for the table or market, but the process 

 is less efficient as a means of inducing crisp and 

 tender growths. Paris Golden is also known as 

 Golden Self-Blanching, and the designation is 

 true, to a certain extent, owing to its close habit 



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