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fact, the whole business requires, and should receive, 

 much thought and judicious management, and all the 

 operations should be conducted in a thoroughly sys- 

 tematic manner. 



"When transplanting time is decided upon the plants 

 have to be dug with spade or trowel, and trimmed, root 

 and top, before they are set out. The digging and trim- 

 ming is an operation taking time, and, before planting 

 begins, enough plants must be got ready to start the 

 planters, and the work of trimming keep pace with the 

 planting. Have ready a large pail of mud, earth and 

 water, stirred to the consistency of cream ; in this dip 

 the roots, using only large strong plants. Drop the 

 plants in the freshly opened row, six inches apart. If 

 the ground be in good friable condition, and moist, a 

 quick man following a boy to drop, will set out eigh fc 

 thousand plants a day and do it well. One quick move- 

 ment of the two hands will draw moist earth about the 

 roots of a plant lying in the row, and, at the same time, 

 set it upright. Another brush of the hands will cover 

 this moist earth with loose, dry earth, to level the 

 ground. Attention is called, at this point, to double 

 rows, which are grown at less expense than two distinct 

 single rows. Double row culture gives good results, as 

 to the quantity of product, affording place for double 

 the amount on an acre, but, of course, is never to be 

 undertaken except in ground fully able in richness to 

 develop such a crop. In double rows the plants are set 

 six inches apart, and the two rows six inches distant 

 from each other, with four feet between each set of rows. 

 Thus, in an acre of 43,560 square feet, with equal sides, 

 there is place for fifty-two row spaces, and each single row 

 will contain 416 plants ; a double row 832. ; 832x52= 

 43,264 plants per acre, set as above described. On 

 muck, two acres, the writer has known 75,000 celery 

 plants grown successfully year after year. Hot south 



