176 GAFIDENI^G FOR PROFIT. 



in all such cases they must be plants grown from sowings 

 made in June or July, for if grown at the North at the 

 usual season, they would not answer, as they would 

 become so large that they would require to be planted out 

 before the end of July, and in most of the Southern 

 States, if planted then, they could not stand the long- 

 continued high temperature and dry atmosphere of 

 August and September. 



It is doubtful if this special growing 01 plants is likely 

 to be done, and our friends at the South must submit to 

 paying us for our Celery already grown, just as we must 

 submit to have the cream of our profits taken off by their 

 early supply of spring vegetables. It is a geographical 

 condition of culture that both sections must accept. In 

 almost all the early vegetables, the first supplies come 

 from Southern gardens, thus anticipating our crops by 

 some weeks ; while Celery is one of the very few things 

 with which we can compete with our Southern friends in 

 their own markets. 



Celery is a plant requiring a cool, moist atmosphere, 

 and it is nonsense to attempt to grow it early in our hot 

 and dry climate, unless under climate and soil specially 

 adapted, which is found in the vicinity of Kalamazoo, 

 Michigan, Horse Heads, New York, and some other 

 similar localities, where there is a rich vegetable deposit 

 on level bottom lands. 



But even when grown, it is not a vegetable that is ever 

 very palatable until cool weather. This our market 

 experience well proves, for, although we always have a 

 few bunches exposed for sale in July and August, there 

 is not one root sold at that time for a thousand that are 

 sold in October and November, 



Celery is always grown by us as a " second crop ; " 

 that is, it follows after the spring crop of Beets, Onions, 

 Cabbage, Cauliflower, Peas or early Potatoes, which are 

 cleared off and marketed, at latest, by the middle of July. 



