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MISCELLANEOUS COOL PLANTS. 



or seed-pans. The young plants grow very slowly, and 

 we make no effort to hasten them. About a month after 

 the seeds are sown, the plants are pricked out into other 

 flats, where they are allowed to stand 3 or 4 inches apart 

 each way. A month or so later, they are transplanted 

 into beds, following lettuce, cauliflower, chrysanthemums, 

 or other crops. It will thus be seen that for two months 

 or more the plants take up little or no room, for the flats 

 are placed in vacant places here and there throughout the 

 house, and they need little other care than watering. 

 They should be kept cool in a house used for lettuce, 

 violets, carnations and the like for if one attempts to 

 force them they will likely 

 run to seed. When the 

 plants are finally trans- 

 planted, we prefer to put 

 them in solid beds with- 

 out bottom heat. 



In six weeks to two months 

 after the plants are turned into 

 their permanent quarters they will 

 be ready to bleach, and this opera- 

 tion has caused us more trouble 

 than all other difficulties combined. 

 Our first thought was to set the 

 plants very close together, so that 

 they would bleach themselves, 

 after the manner of the "New 

 Celery Culture," but it would not 

 work. The plants ran too much 

 to foliage, and they tended to 

 damp-off or rot where they 

 were too close. We next 

 tried darkening the house, 

 but without success. We then attempted to bleach the 

 plants by partially burying them in sand in a cellar, but 

 this also failed. Finally, we tried various methods oi 



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45. Winter celery in bleaching 

 paper. 



