HORTICULTURE 



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Savoy leaved spinach. 



only contains considerable nutriment, but has valuable medicinal 



properties. It is said to be a valuable article of diet for those who 



live sedentary lives. It will grow in almost any rich loam 



which has only a slight mixture 



of clay. Onions may be grown 



from either seeds or sets. In 



gardens the sets are usually 



placed in beds and in short rows 



fifteen to eighteen inches apart, 



but in truck patches the sets 



are placed in long rows so that 



the onions may be plowed with 



a cultivator. Onion growing is 



usually found profitable, and 



the yield usually varies from 



three to five hundred bushels per acre under favorable conditions 



on rich soil. Some of the best varieties are the round white 



silverskin, mammoth, silver king, Michigan yellow globe, the 



early red and the large red Wethersfield. 



Celery is one of our highly prized vegetables and is not 

 very difficult to grow when handled properly. For home use 

 it may be grown by what is called the new process. This 



consists in making the celery 

 bed as rich as possible and set- 

 ting the plants in it six to eight 

 inches apart or close enough so 

 that the plants will blanch each 

 other. The plants are grown 

 from seed sown in shallow boxes 

 in which the soil is kept very 

 moist all the time until the seed germinate. In sowing care 

 must be taken not to cover the seed too deep. The seed should 

 be sown in the spring and the plants set out in rows early in 

 the summer. In setting the plants make broad trenches about 

 six inches deep and four to six feet apart and set the plants at 

 intervals of every six or seven inches. When the plant is nearly 

 full grown, press the leaves closely together and pull the earth 

 around the plant to one third of its height, taking care that 



Victoria spinach. 



