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CHAPTER XL 



CELERY. 



Of all the vegetables that are grown for shipment there 

 is none that will give you the large returns that this one will ; 

 but again there is none that requires the labor, ferti- 

 lizer and careful treatment that this crpp does. The San- 

 ford growers are considered specialists in growing celery, 

 and I doubt if you will find one of them who tias made a 

 success of it who does not use at least two tons of high- 

 grade fertilizer to the acre, besides having his land irri- 

 gated and drained with the sub-irrigation system. I know 

 there are some of my readers who will say that the crop 

 will not pay for this expense, but from personal experience 

 I know that it will, and I feel confident that any one visit- 

 ing Sanford during the shipping season and seeing the re- 

 turns which the growers are receiving for their crops will 

 agree with me. Two years ago I was in a ten-acre field 

 of celery at this point which sold in the field for $12,000. 

 I w-ould not advise a person not thoroughly acquainted with 

 the culture of this vegetable to plant it extensively until 

 he has experimented with it on a small scale. You can 

 learn how to grow it by planting an eighth of an acre just 

 as well as you can by planting ten acres, and if you make a 

 failure you will not be out much money. 



PLANTING. 



Sow the seed any time from the ist of August until the 

 1st of November, using only the Golden Self-Blanching 

 variety, and making certain that the seed are French grown, 

 as the American-grown seeds are apt to give you a crop of 

 hollow stalk celery, which is absolutely worthless. 



Make up the seed beds as advised in Chapter VII, having 



