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watered with a fine sprinkling pot. This kind of setting is 

 usually paid for by the thousand. In about three weeks' 

 time after the plants are pricked out they are ready to be 

 transferred to the field ; that is if they have been watered 

 daily and well fertilized. If for any reason your plants do 

 not start growing as quickly as you think they should, make 

 up a solution of nitrate of soda and water, using one quart 

 of soda to fifty gallons of water, and apply to the plants 

 with a fine sprinkling pot twice a week. If you do not care 

 to prick the plants, you should cut them back several times 

 and in this way make them chunky. An ideal celery plant 

 when it is ready for the field should be the size of your little 

 finger and about five inches high, having plenty of white, 

 healthy roots. 



FERTILIZING. 



The first thing to do is to apply all the stable fertilizer 

 you can get on the land, or if you cannot get the stable fer- 

 tilizer, give it a ton of pulverized sheep manure, plowing 

 it under well. Next lay the field off in furrows thirty 

 inches apart, and drill a ton of celery special fertilizer in 

 them, mixing thoroughly with the soil as you cover it. The 

 following is an excellent analysis for this vegetable : Am- 

 monia, 7% ; available phosphoric acid, 5% ; and potash, 

 10%. In about ten days' time you will be ready to set the 

 plants. 



PLANTING. 



Make two sizes of the plants, putting the large ones in 

 one row and the small ones in the next, and vice versa 

 through the field. To make the rows straight, stretch a 

 line from one end of the furrow to the other, then run a 

 wheel marker with plugs in the tire the width you wish the 

 plants apart, which is usually three to four inches, down the 

 line. The best tool for setting the plants is a plasterer's 



