PRACTICAL GARDENING 



If stable manure is not available apply about 

 twenty-five pounds of any high grade fertilizer 

 over twenty by twenty feet and work it into the 

 soil about two inches in depth one or two days 

 before planting. 



There is no vegetable which will respond 

 more quickly to frequent and careful cultiva- 

 tion than celery. If the celery is planted in 

 single rows cultivate until the plants are ready 

 to blanch. If the plants are set in double rows, 

 two rows ten inches apart and then a space of 

 two to four feet and another double row, culti- 

 vate between the double rows with a wheel cul- 

 tivator and between the rows with a three- 

 pronged Norcross weeder. Maintain a dust 

 mulch throughout the season. If the seed of 

 the early varieties is planted in February, 

 transplanted about March and again trans- 

 planted to the open about May first, the plants 

 wiU be ready to blanch in July or August. 

 The seed of late varieties may be sown in April 

 or May and planted in the open in June 

 or July. Blanch in September or October. 



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