CHAPTEE XVIII. 

 CELEKY. 



The best soil for celery is muck. Sandy loam is 

 also very good, but requires heavy fertilizing, as celery 

 is a rank feeder. A swamp, well drained and in good 

 tilth, will grow strong celery. Muck soil, that will grow 

 a crop of onions or potatoes, will grow a succeeding crop 

 of celery the same season. On sandy loam the same 

 thing can be done, with the addition of a good dressing 

 of stable manure. Celery is usually grown as a second 

 crop, after early peas, beets, onions, early potatoes, tur- 

 nips, and sometimes cabbage; the ground for these 

 crops should always be heavily dressed the previous 

 autumn with good barnyard manure. Celery plants are 

 often set out on potato ground before the potatoes are 

 dug, every third row of the potatoes being omitted. 

 The cultivation of the ground for potatoes is good prep- 

 aration for celery. In hoeing, a trench is made at the 

 place of the omitted rows, in which about the middle 

 a double row of celery plants is set. Market gardeners 

 generally confine themselves to growing one or two vari- 

 eties proven to be profitable and salable, their object 

 being to put on the market an article pleasing to the 

 eye, tender, crisp and solid. The dwarf sorts are now 

 more extensively raised than the large, for the reason 

 that, in quality, they are every way as good, and require 

 less field space, besides being easier to work. 



Years ago, under the laborious and expensive method 

 of cultivation, celery was not a very profitable crop ; but 

 within the past twenty years the acreage and profits 



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