58 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



taste for gardening, gave much of his leisure to cultivating vegetables and fruit. 

 Two years ago he actually sold off ^ of an acre of celery and other products, 

 amounting to the sum of $400, as much cash as many farmers take off one hun- 

 dred acres. Too often, where little stock is kept, the manure that ought to go 

 on one acre is scattered over ten, the seed sown after half working up the soil, 

 and what wonder if failure results ? Something more is needed nowadays than a 

 mere tickling of the soil to get any profit out of fruit culture or any other line of 

 husbandry. 



Celery and Typhoid.— It has been claimed by some writers that the use 

 of unclean manure should be avoided in the garden for fear of the absorption of 

 injurious particles by the juices of the plants. But the best sanitarians and stu- 

 dents of vegetable physiology, assure us that no fear need be entertained under 

 this head, as no injurious substances have ever yet been detected in vegetables 

 or fruits from the use of such manures. 



An article, however, in the Medical Journal, states that there is a danger of 

 disease in the use of such vegetables as are not prepared for the table by boiling, 

 on account of injurious particles which may cling to the exterior, or lodge in the 

 interstices. 



Celery, for instance, is a vegetable which is often brought on the table with 

 very scanty use of water, and indeed it is only with the most careful attention 

 that the small particles of filth can be entirely washed out from the interstices 

 between the stalks. Now it is well known among medical men that the bacillus 

 of typhoid fever is frequently found in night soil, a manure which is so highly 

 valued by market gardeners, who frequently apply it to their growing vegetables, 

 in a liquid form. The danger of some particles of this filth clinging to the stalks 

 of celery, after a careless washing, is evident; and we, therefore, wish to warn our 

 readers of the danger in this regard, and to advise the most fastidious care in 

 preparing this vegetable for the table. 



A Member Benefited. — Mr. Chas. Ellis of Meaford writes that a subscriber 

 in that town reports that the Canadian Horticulturist was the means of put- 

 ting in his pocket the sum of $80, by keeping him posted on the prices of apples 

 and enabling him to sell in the best markets. 



We hope to have arrangements made to get fuller reports of all the best 

 markets during the coming season, and thus to help the fruit growers as much 

 as possible. 



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