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three rows at a time, then a week later three more, and 

 thus had a succession. It needs to be sold as soon as 

 bleached, or it will rust and decay. We commenced 

 selling about October ii, and sold about one row a 

 week. On November lo and ii, put all the celery left 

 unsold into the cellar, packing the bleached in a wide 

 bed as close together as it could be packed. 



The unbleached we packed in beds about three 

 feet wide and eighteen feet long, with a little sand on 

 the roots. We used ten-inch hemlock boards for the 

 sides. This celery will need watering about twice, 

 for which I have a funnel made with a mouth about a 

 foot wide, and a long spout, so that the water can be 

 poured in and carried to the roots without wetting the 

 foliage. We keep the cellar open night and day as 

 long as it is safe, only closing at the approach of severe 

 weather. I expect to have all celery sold, or in condi- 

 tion to sell, by New Year's. 



A Northwestern Celery Grozver of experience, A. 

 Brackett, Hennepin county, Minnesota, detailed fully 

 his very successful methods : Celery seed was planted 

 in drills eighteen inches apart, on moist, rich soil, on 

 lake margin. The seedbed should be made very 

 rich and the celery planted as soon as the ground can 

 be worked in the spring. It should be kept thoroughly 

 hoed and free from weeds. The plants should be large 

 enough to plant any time between June 20 and July 10. 

 The more comjDact the ground the more compact will 

 be the celery. Celery grown on loose ground is apt to 

 be pithy and spongy. 



The field in which we planted celery was plowed 

 early in the spring, and kept thoroughly cultivated 

 until the time of planting. With a marker we marked 

 off rows five feet apart and ran a celery hiller through 

 the rows, throwing the dirt each way, and leaving the 

 rows about six inches deep. One load of completely 



