PRACTICAL GARDENING 



by nursing the weaklings. They never make 

 strong plants. 



Celery will grow in almost any fertile, well- 

 drained soil, but a loose, sandy garden loam is 

 preferable. Muck soil is also used com- 

 mercially to grow celery but the flavor of the 

 celery grown on peat bogs or muck is not as 

 good as that of celery grown on a loam soil. 

 Celery land should have an application of ma- 

 nure in the fall, and then the soil should be 

 turned over and left in the rough. Early in 

 the spring, smooth and pulverize the soil. If a 

 plot twenty by twenty feet is to be planted, ap- 

 ply ten pounds of ground quicklime as a top 

 dressing and also about five pounds of 

 coarse salt. Both the lime and salt should be 

 applied in the fall after spading or plowing the 

 soil. 



The usual distance of planting is twenty- 

 four inches between the rows with the plants 

 set six inches apart in the rows providing 

 boards or building paper ^re used for blanch- 

 ing. If the plants are banked, the rows should 



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