LETTUCE. CELERY 



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In some localities celery is shipped in crates where 

 the bunches are laid flat and the tops lapped. 



Storing : Celery will withstand considerable 

 light frost, but its keeping qualities and flavor will 

 be injured by hard freezing. 



Large northern growers handle the last of the 

 crop by the method known as trenching. The celery 

 is first partially banked with earth and allowed to 

 remain where _ 

 grown so long as 

 there is no dan- 

 ger from heavy 

 frosts. Then 

 comes the work 

 of digging the 

 plants to be 

 trenched. Trench- 

 ing will be great- 

 ly facilitated by 

 setting up two 

 parallel lines of 

 twelve - inch 

 boards, about 

 eighteen or 

 twenty inches apart, between which the dug celery is 

 packed with the roots embedded in the soil. When 

 the space between the boards is filled, soil is thrown 

 up on the outside to the tops of the boards. The 

 boards are then lifted out and used again, the soil 

 being allowed to come in direct contact with the 

 celery. These trenches are usually made only fifty 

 or sixty feet in length and are small enough to per- 

 mit the removal of a whole trench at one time. As 

 colder weather approaches, the celery is either re- 

 moved and marketed or a covering of boards, straw 



GATHERING BOARD-BLANCHED CELERY NEAR 

 SANFORD, FLA. 1,200 CRATES TO THE ACRE 



