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GARDEN STEPS 



piece of rough cloth over the earth and water that. 

 It may be left on till the seeds germinate. 



Transplanting. — Celery should be transplanted 

 twice. As soon as the young plants are large enough 

 to handle, they should be transplanted to another 

 box or to the cold frame, where they should stand 



two inches apart each way. 

 Again, when they are four 

 or five inches high, and 

 warm weather has come, 

 they may be set in the 

 garden. 



Unless celery is trans- 

 planted, it grows into a 

 very different plant from 

 that usually seen. Instead 

 of the thick nest of roots, 

 it develops a thin taproot 

 that has little strength to 

 support the plant; and in 

 place of a large bunch of 

 heavy stalks, it produces a thin, poor group of tough 

 stalks, which are very slow in developing. 



Setting Celery in the Garden. — When the plants 

 are large enough to set out in the garden, scoop out 

 shallow trenches four or five inches deep, piling 

 between them the earth that is removed. The 

 trenches will need to be three feet apart in order to 

 allow space for handling this earth. Four feet be- 



Transplanted Celery Plant 



