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has been pulverized and fertilized, are ideal 

 celery plots, because there the moisture is 

 sufficient even during the heat of summer. 

 Celery cannot stand exposure to the direct 

 heat of the sun, and on exposed places many 

 growers find it necessary to shade the crop. 



Celery seeds are very small and slow to sprout 

 and are sown broadcast or in rows. If in rows 

 the sowing is very shallow. The seedlings are 

 tender and delicate, so that it is only in a well- 

 prepared seed-bed that the plants can be satis- 

 factorily raised. The site of the bed should be 

 selected with great care, so as to protect it from 

 hot or dry winds, and to make it convenient 

 to water it every evening. Celery requires a 

 great deal of moisture. The soil must be in 

 such excellent tilth that it will hold moisture 

 up to the very surface without the help of a 

 mulch. Some growers do use a mulch in grow- 

 ing celery, but it makes the delicate seedlings 

 so much more delicate that the loss from sun- 

 scald upon transplanting is likely to be heavy. 

 If you do use a covering of any sort, be careful 

 to begin to remove it as soon as the plants be- 

 gin to grow, and take it all off before they are 

 up enough to be transplanted. But if you make 

 your seed-bed carefully, you will not need a 

 covering for it. 



