8O A MANUAL OF 



Celery plants, to become large, stocky, and 

 of good shape, should be transplanted, or 

 " pricked out," as gardeners term it, as soon as 

 they- have attained a height of two inches, into 

 a bed of rich, mellow soil, in rows four to six 

 inches apart, and two inches in the row. 



Here they should receive frequent water- 

 ings, and should be sheared or cut back as 

 often as they show any tendency to send up tall 

 and spindling leaf-stalks. This keeps them short 

 and stocky, and causes them to form a mass 

 of fibrous roots. They will then be ready to 

 start into vigorous growth as soon as put out 

 in the field, where they have plenty of room. 

 They may be left in these beds until the 

 removal of some early field or garden crop 

 gives a vacant spot for setting them, and will 

 be growing probably more rapidly in the beds 

 during the hot and dry weeks of midsummer 

 than they would in the field. 



ASPARAGUS PLANTS. 



ONE of the best paying vegetables for 

 marketing at the present day, if rightly 

 managed, is asparagus. A grower of veg- 



