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The Canadian Horticulturist 



PITT'S BASIN CELERY CRATE. 



Sir, — You will find enclosed a photo of 

 one of my celery crates containing a half 

 dozen stalks of the White Plume variety and 

 a half dozen Boston Market, put up the first 

 week in November last, and nearly as fresh 

 and thrifty as when taken from the ground. 

 I have found this method of keeping celery 

 for family use superior to all other methods, 

 and during winter weather, if not too cold, 

 it is a good way to pack for shipment. By 

 this method the freshness, sweetness, crisp- 

 ness and nutty flavor are fully preserved. I 

 pack the roots of the celery in about four 

 inches of soil in the bottom, or basin, of 

 the crate. If it shows any inclination 

 to wilt, a cup of warm water, with a 

 little ammonia, will freshen it up again. I 

 prefer to let it wilt a little, especially if it is 

 designed to keep it till late in February or 

 into March, at which time celery always 

 brings a much better price. This is my third year of using the crate. I 

 can bring references, from all the hotel keepers of Welland, as to its superiority, 

 also from leading citizens and professional men in regard to the superiority of 

 this system of handling and^storing celery. I find also that I can secure the 

 patronage of those who use celery, over all competitors, and, besides, I can sell 

 from one to three dozen in a crate, where, by the old system, parties refuse to 

 buy more than a half dozen, on account of its wilting and spoiling. This you 

 see is also an important point to all gardeners, as well as customers. I intend 

 having the crate' patented. 



St. Johns West, Out. J. N. Pitts. 



Pitt's Celery Crate, 



Catch 'em and Kill 'em is the plan proposed by Mr. B. Gott, of Arkona, 

 as the best mode of ridding our orchards of codling moth, plum curculio, can- 

 ker worm, etc., etc. He would bind haybands about the trunks, or other appli- 

 ances to trap the larva of the codling moth ; and he would build fires to attract 

 the mother moth. Such plans were all very well before we had found by actual 

 experience how safely and effectively arsenites can be employed ; but, in these 

 days, such a scheme sounds very like the boy's plan of catching birds by putting 

 salt on their tails ! It is a very slow way of accomplishing the purpose. 



