CHAPTER XVIII. 

 CULTURE OF CELERY. 



MONO all crops of vegetables grown, celery is 

 perhaps the one from which the largest income 

 can be derived. 



There are several plans advocated by which 

 it is grown successfully, each in itself radically 

 different from other methods, and each claiming 

 equal success. The most intensive cultivation 

 of celery is carried on at Sanford, Florida, 

 where the system of tile sub-irrigation is largely practiced. The 

 following extract from an address by Hon. J. N. Whitner will 

 give you a better idea of the Sanford method : 



"Civilized man, with rapidly increasing millions to feed, with 

 intensive farming, which makes it necessary to obtain the most 

 and best from his ground, has turned to irrigation. We are amazed 

 at what has been and is being done by private as well as govern- 

 ment enterprise. And as this great national convention and exhi- 

 bition is assembled to tell and show what great things have been 

 and can be done, the far South, even Florida, sends you greeting, 

 and bids me claim fellowship and a part in your labors. We have 

 brought some of our products to show you, and I am sent to fell 

 you of our system of irrigation and some of its results. We know 

 it as the Sanford system of sub-irrigation and drainage. 



"Let me describe the system, its operation and theory; then, 

 with your permission, tell you something of what it has done for 

 us. Its possibilities seem limitless. Without an illustration or 

 drawing, a description is difficult to understand or remember. I 

 have, therefore, brought a sufficient number of illustrations, a 

 glance at which will give a full understanding. These are for free 

 distribution at the Florida booth, or will be mailed upon request. 

 Briefly stated, the water is applied through 3-inch tile, laid in par- 



