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thoroughly plowed, harrowed and smoothed off. Furrows 

 should then be made where the plants are to go, about six 

 inches deep, in which about three inches of fine, well-rotted 

 manure or compost should be placed. This manure should 

 be thoroughly mixed with the soil, and the furrow nearly 

 filled. For mixing the manure and soil, perhaps there is no 

 better implement than a one horse cultivator with the teeth 

 set close together. If the land is unusually rich in plant food, 

 there is no need of going to this trouble, but the plants may 

 be set right after the marker. In any case, the plants should 

 be four or five feet apart for the common kinds that have to 

 be bleached by "banking up with earth," but the self-bleach- 

 ing kinds can be managed in rows three feet apart. 



Before the- plants are dug from the seed bed, it should be 

 thoroughly soaked with water. The plants should have the 

 tops and roots partly cut off and the roots dipped in water. 

 The place where they are to be planted should be moist, and 

 every precaution taken to prevent the plants drying out when 

 they are being moved. Special attention should be given to 

 planting on freshly plowed land and to firming the soil around 

 the roots. The plants should be set six inches apart, after 

 stretching a line for marking out to get the rows straight. If 

 the land is dry, it must be watered before it is safe to set out 

 celery plants, and if the weather is dry the plants must also 

 be shaded from the sun. This shade may be given by cover- 

 ing the plants with finely cut grass. The ground should be kept 

 clean and mellow between the plants with a horse cultivator 

 throughout the season. 



If, while the crop is growing, it is thought the plants re- 

 quire more food, it may be supplied by plowing a shallow 

 furrow away from them on one side and putting in fine well- 

 rotted stable manure, hen manure or compost and covering it 

 with soil. This treatment supplies the food directly to the 

 roots and is very effective. Nitrate of soda or other nitro- 

 genous fertilizer may also be used to advantage in this way. 



Celery and Onions Together. In some sections celery is grown 

 as a second crop with onions. In this case every fourth or 

 fifth row is left vacant when the onion seed is sown, and this 

 space is set out to late celery plants at the proper time. If 

 the onion seed is sown by the 20th of April, almost any of the 



