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Market. Celery is an important item in the seed 

 trade. At present, most of the seed used in the United 

 States is grown here; nine- tenths of it being produced 

 more cheaply in central California than elsewhere, 

 though seed of first quality is also grown in the Atlantic 

 Coast section. 



The annual California production approximates 25,- 

 000 pounds. In a favorahle season, a seed yield is from 

 400 to 500 pounds per acre; prices paid to growers 

 range from twenty to thirty cents per pound. 



Seed of certain sorts is imported from Europe; this 

 applies particularly to the variety known as Paris 

 Golden Self-Blanching. French growers are paid from 

 fifty to sixty cents per pound for this seed. Even Cali- 

 fornia market growers of celery of this variety prefer 

 French seed; the crop resulting therefrom proving more 

 satisfactory than when grown from domestic seed. 



CORN. 



That which is of first importance when growing seed 

 corn is, to exercise the greatest care to avoid mixture 

 of crop. Sugar corn must not be grown near field corn, 

 and to keep a variety strictly pure, one kind of sugar or 

 field corn must not be planted near another kind, nor 

 in an adjoining field. Neither should corn be planted 

 on land upon which any variety of corn was raised the 

 year previous, to prevent mixture from " volunteer 

 plants." 



Stock-seed should have been carefully selected from 

 stalks whose habit of growth was characteristic of the 

 variety, and from the earliest, largest, and finest ears, 

 which in their shape and size, color and formation of 

 grain, and time of maturity, were distinctly true to 

 variety. This method is also particularly recom- 

 mended when saving seed for private use. 



