THE 1 (TO 



GARDEN YARD 



Even when you have taken so much pains to 

 start your celery crop, the work is by no means 

 done. To secure good, strong, stocky plants, 

 they should be transplanted once or twice in 

 the seed-bed before the final transplanting to 

 the garden. It is essential in North Carolina, 

 says Prof. Massey, to transplant celery once 

 before setting in field or garden. This entails 

 so much labor, that many growers are now 

 using the thinning process in place of these 

 various transplantings, and even in the seed- 

 bed the young plants are thinned to stand two 

 to three inches apart and the tops are sheared 

 if they grow tall too soon. The plants may be 

 safely cut back a third or even a half of their 

 growth. In small garden plots, shears or a 

 sickle may be used, but, in the large fields, 

 growers generally use a scythe. 



There is usually a good deal of loss in celery 

 seed, so it is well to sow it very thickly, and then 

 you may reasonably expect from 20,000 to 

 30,000 plants to the acre. An ounce of seed 

 will plant about 200 feet of row, and if good, 

 should give from 5000 to 10,000 plants, al- 

 though where losses are very heavy the yield 

 is frequently only 2000 to the ounce of seed. 

 One pound of seed should give plants enough 

 to set out four or five acres. 



