76 CELERY. 



SOWING AND HOEING. 



To make the drills, take a board four 

 inches wide and ten feet long (the extra 

 two feet beyond the width of the bed 

 being intended to serve as handles), and 

 two men, at opposite sides of the bed, 

 press the board edgewise into the ground 

 to the depth of an inch. The edge of the 

 board is not to be made sharp. The 

 drills are to be made a foot apart. Cover 

 the seed as fast as sown, and when the 

 whole bed is finished give it a light roll- 

 ing. By so doing the plants will come 

 up alike, as heretofore described. The 

 sprouts will come above ground in about 

 fourteen days. At the first hoeing thin 



