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boy to bring the plants, my man and I set them in rows 

 the short way of the piece, two inches apart, and the 

 rows were one foot apart, so they could be worked. 

 The boy brought plants faster than we could set them 

 out, so he had time to water the plants as soon as they 

 were set. The piece held fourteen thousand plants, 

 which we were two days setting out. They should be 

 set with care; if the root is doubled in planting, the 

 plants never amount to anything. 



The ground was in fine condition July 20, and we 

 set eighteen rows in one day, four hundred to the row, 

 setting in shallow furrows. Each plant had a big 

 bunch of roots holding a ball of dirt. We watered the 

 bed thoroughly before liftmg the plants. When the 

 plants were set we cultivated close to them, filling the 

 furrows. We had fine weather for celery ; not too hot. 

 and lots of rain, and they grew finely. When the plants 

 were fairly started, I spread four hundred pounds bone 

 black, three hundred pounds nitrate of soda and one 

 hundred and fifty pounds muriate of potash, cultivating 

 in. Cultivated once a week until September 21. On 

 September 5, spread one hundred pounds nitrate of 

 soda between the rows. Commenced banking every 

 other row October 2. 



Another Jersey Water Garden (Alfred P. Edge). 

 — The garden is situated about fifty feet from our 

 kitchen door, and to a busy farmer this is very impor- 

 tant. The busiest man has many an odd moment, 

 waiting for meals, etc., when he can easily pick up a 

 hoe and not having far to go can do much work and 

 not miss the time. I have a windmill at the kitchen 

 door to supply the house and barns ; this I also use to 

 flood my garden in dry times. We almost always have 

 a drouth sometime during summer. The soil is natu- 

 rally a heavy clay, but by careful handling its nature 

 has been changed. My fence when I came was a 



