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THE NEW CELERY CULTURE. 



The R. N. Y. says : For the benefit of newer readers, we will briefly restate 

 the main features of what is called the " New Celery Culture." The soil is 



well enriched and prepared with 

 great care, being made as fine and 

 open as tools can make it. It is 

 then marked off in rows seven inches 

 apart each way. The plants, started 

 as usual from seed, are set out in 

 the cross marks seven inches apart 

 all over the field. They are culti- 

 vated with the wheel hoe and hand 

 tools as long as possible, and irri- 

 gated or watered so that the soil 

 never becomes very dry. 



Mr. Beckwith of the Delaware 

 Agricultural Experimental Station, 

 has tried the new plan and says : 

 We are so well pleased with 

 this method that we shall try it 

 again the coming season, and shall 

 set the plants seven inches apart 

 each way, and make the bed very 

 much wider, as we think by so do- 

 ing the plants will blanch better. 



The above is from a photograph of the celery taken while growing in the garden. 



The five rows to the right show that planted after the Niven method, while at 



the left is a row of White Plume blanching by means of boards on each side 



instead of soil. 



Summer Pruning- of Gooseberries and Currants.— Of these there 

 are two kinds requirihg notice, viz., Gooseberries and Currants, of the latter only 

 red and white varieties, and of the first-named only those trained to walls. Any- 

 one who has not hitherto practised summer pruning as here advocated for Cur- 

 rants and Gooseberries would, I feel sure, after a first trial adopt the plan. The 

 young shoots are cut back about the second or third week in June to within 

 four or five leaves of their base, and it only remains to be said that you will be 

 rewarded by larger fruit and more of it than would be the case if they were 

 treated only to the customary winter pruning. — H. G. H. in Garden Work. 



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