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which is usually before Thanksgiving, we can get at any 

 celery we want, or that needs to come out. 



To give you my idea of a cellar of this kind, it may be 

 well to describe one we made two years ago. It was made 

 in quite a steep bank, and is twenty by forty feet. The cel- 

 lar proper is only twenty by thirty feet, and a room ten by 

 twenty feet, separated from the cellar proper by a double 

 board partition. The walls for the cellar are ten feet high, 

 laid with some mortar and then pointed. Two feet from the 

 top the wall sets back a few inches, and the floor sleepers 

 rest on this. The floor is of matched spruce boards, and 

 has four scuttles in it, about two by three feet, the frames 

 for which are raised six inches from the floor. We keep the 

 floor covered with meadow hay, and cover the scuttles if 

 need be. 



The wall extends eighteen inches above this floor, and the 

 plate sets on the wall. There is a double-pitch shingled 

 roof over it. The floor is below the surface of the ground, 

 and the dirt comes nearly to the plate. There are no win- 

 dows in the cellar proper, but there is a large window in one 

 end of the room overhead, and a door in the other, and there 

 is a window in the outside cellar. The floor of the cellar 

 is on a level with the driveway in front, and we drive to the 

 back door, which is in the room over the cellar. There is 

 no lugging up and down stairs. It is also possible to venti- 

 late quite thoroughly, even in very cold weather. This is 

 not a cold cellar in winter, but it is easier to keep at an 

 even temperature than any cellar I have ever had before. 



It may seem strange to consider storage before giving any 

 consideration to growing a crop ; but of this whole market- 

 garden l)usiness there is nothing, perhaps, as well understood 

 or as well written up as the growing of vegetables, especially 

 the more common varieties, and I shall not spend much time 

 on that part of the occupation ; and it may be well to say a 

 few words about soil and manure, before we consider it. 



While there is no one soil that is good for all varieties of 

 vegetables, most varieties will do fairly well on any good 

 land; but having land that vegetables will grow well on is 

 not the most important thing to consider in the ideal market 

 garden, but rather a soil that will work easy, is deep, lays 



