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is about three hundred acres. I was there about two years 

 ago, and I found that many of the celery growers preferred 

 blanching the celery with loam instead of using boards. 

 As far as self-blanching celery is concerned, I do not believe 

 there is any such thing. It is not fit to eat until after it has 

 been loamed up. You may call it " self-blanching," or any- 

 thing you please. With regard to the variety of which the 

 lecturer says he sells so much, of course he will sell more 

 of it than any one else. He being the originator of it, the 

 rest of the seedsmen would send to him for it ; hence his 

 larger demand for that than for any other variety. But in 

 this part of the country we use the Boston Market, Arling- 

 ton, and Paris Golden. This latter is the celery that has 

 been referred to by one gentleman. It has only been 

 introduced into this section about two years. I think 

 the first that I saw in the market here was year before 

 last. This last year it was grown quite extensively, and 

 to those who grew it it was quite profitable. I do not know 

 what will happen next year, but the demand for seed is very 

 large. 



In reference to the amount of capital which the lecturer 

 spoke of as necessary to carry on a market garden of ten 

 acres, he perhaps stated it rather mildly when he said three 

 hundred dollars. That is not enough. Five hundred dol- 

 lars per acre is little enough for anything in the vicin- 

 ity of Boston. And as regards hot-houses, they are, of 

 course, useful in the spring of the year, l)ut they can be 

 used to better advantage in the winter season. He also 

 spoke of manures. This is quite an item with us here 

 in New England. We purchase manure from stables in 

 Boston, using it for heating purposes mostly before it 

 is placed upon the land ; that is, placing it in the hot-beds, 

 where some of us have two or three thousand sashes. 

 It takes a large quantity of manure for that number of 

 sashes, — a cord to eight sashes. The price of manure here 

 is about the same as in New York. They have commenced 

 using peat to some extent in the stables in Boston, and a 

 representative of a peat concern came on here some two 

 years ago to introduce it ; but he found that he could sell 

 but very little peat in Boston, for the reason that the farm- 



