How to manage a Garden 



3. SALADS, &c. 

 Celery and Celeriae. This useful vegetable is well 



worth growing in every garden. Seed should be sown in 

 pans or boxes, filled with sandy soil, early in March and 

 submitted to gentle heat either in a greenhouse or over a 

 hot-bed. When large enough to handle, prick out three or 

 four inches apart. Celery should be planted in trenches 

 specially prepared so that the plants may be easily earthed 

 up. Plant in May or June in single rows, and if necessary 

 protect from late frosts. Water plentifully throughout 

 their stay in the ground, this being their chief requirement. 

 Earthing should be done some eight to ten weeks before 

 they are needed, but not to such an extent as to bury 

 the heart. Suitable varieties are Standard Bearer and 

 Daniel's Exhibition Pink. 



Celeriae does not need to be planted in trenches nor 

 earthed up, for it is the roots that are required. These 

 should be dug up and stored. 



Cucumbers. Plants need to be raised in a temperature 

 of not less than 60, and are better afterwards grown in 

 frames where there is some heat either from hot-water 

 pipes or a hot-bed. Make up a heap or ridge of soil and 

 plant the cucumbers thereon when eight or nine inches 

 high. Stop the main shoot when it has nearly reached the 

 limit, and stop fruiting shoots at one or two leaves beyond 

 the fruit. Do not allow the fruit to hang too long or the 

 flavour will be spoiled and the produce curtailed. Water 

 freely and syringe to keep down red spider. 



Endive and Lettuce. Endive is not greatly in use 

 in cottage households, but could with advantage be grown 

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