ILLUSTRATIONS 



FIGURE 



Field of celery banked with earth for blanching 



Frontispiece 



1. Heavy plow for breaking bog or marsh land 



2. Heavy subsoil plow for loosening clay subsoils 



3. Improved sectional clod crusher and leveler 



4. Acme harrow for fitting land after plowing 



5. Breaking Florida hammock for celery 



6. Home-made float or drag for leveling soil 



7. Meeker harrow for smoothing surface for planting 



8. Horse -boots for soft or boggy land 



9. Machine for marking distances to plant 

 10 Tray for seed sowing or transplanting 



11. Cross-section of temporary hotbed 



12. Cross-section of permanent hotbed 



13. Cross-section of cold-frame with muslin shade 



14. Cloth-protected celery plant bed for home garden 



15. Celery plant bed under slat shade 



16. Effect of transplanting upon the roots 



17. Device for cutting roots in seed-bed 



18. Transplanting celery plants in Florida 



19. Crate of celery plants packed for shipment 



20. Setting celery plants in field 



21. Dibbles for use in setting celery plants 



22. Setting celery plants in the home garden 



23. One-horse cultivator ... 



24. The wheel hoe .... 



25. Hand-weeding tools for working around celery 



plants ...... 



26. Deluge sprinkler system of irrigating 



27. Skinner system of overhead watering 



28. Arrangement of tiles for subirrigation 



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