The Canadian Horticulturist. 265 



It is not to be confounded with home-made fermented wines, for if properly 

 made and kept in air-tight vessels in a cool dark place it will not ferment 

 more easily than will fruit canned entire. 



Juices put up in this way, particularly those of the currant and cherry, 

 without sweetening, and used in combination with Spitzenburg apples in 

 winter, make a delicious jelly, very acceptable at a time when the supply 

 of summer-made jellies is nearly or quite exhausted. Our way — which we 

 think a good one — of extracting the juice of fruit difiers from that given, in 

 that we add no water to the fruit, but put it dry into a closely-covered stone 

 jar, which is placed in a kettle of water, brought to the boiling point, and 

 kept at that stage till the fruit is thoroughly steamed, it is then strained and 

 measured in the same careful manner laid down oy " Katherine B. J." But 

 juice so extracted, being undiluted wdth water, does not require more than 

 eight minutes' boiling to make firm jelly — less if the fruit has ripened in a 

 dry time — before adding the heated sugar, and no boiling after but it must 

 be stirred a bit till the sugar is dissolved. — Judy Jones, in R. N. Y. 



BLEACHING AND KEEPING CELERY. 



THE Dwarf Celeries now used by most cultivators are grown on a level 

 surface in rows four to six feet apart. Handling is the first work 

 towards bleaching. I use cotton cord, and tie it loosely around the 

 first plant, and then passing the string to the next, take a turn around this» 

 tying it the same way, and continue through the row without breaking the 

 cord, which is tied to the last plant. In this process all the leaves are 

 gathered and tied firmly enough to hold the plant erect and compact. If 

 tied too tightly the Celery, as it grows, will double back when the string is 

 reached, and injure the appearance of the heart. After the Celery is 

 banked with earth, the string rots under the ground and gives no trouble 

 at the time of digging. 



Many methods of bleaching are practised. During the past season I 

 saw heavy paper tied about the plants by one grower, and earth was then 

 drawn up against the paper. Another grower placed corn-stocks against 

 the plants to hold them upright, and then banked against these. A third 

 tied each plant separately with tobacco cord, and left them without banking 

 and exposed to all weather till November ist, when the}' were carried into 

 deep hot -beds to bleach under leayes and boards. Another banked the 



