96 Teuck Growing in the South. 



CELERY. 



The writer can remember not many years ago when 

 celery was used to a very limited extent — ^principally as a 

 seasoning for soups. Our largest cities would take only a 

 car or two per week then; now 'Hew York alone will take 

 one hundred cars weekly. This illustrates to what a re- 

 markable extent a taste may be acquired for some vegeta- 

 bles. There is a single station in Florida that now ships 

 annually over five hundred cars of celery and this year's 

 output of the southern part of the State will be approxi- 

 mately two thousand cars. The writer remembers when, 

 less than fifteen years ago, it was not known that celery 

 could be grown in Florida. Mr. itTeylans, of Tampa, was 

 the first grower to make a success of it. Since his experi- 

 ment, it has been demonstrated that it can be grown on 

 almost any class of soil, provided that abundance of water 

 is supplied. It is useless to undertake to grow this ciop 

 without irrigation. As before stated it can be grown on 

 almost any kind of soil, but prefers a dark, heavy soil, 

 moist but well drained. Abundance of moisture is indis- 

 pensible for this crop. Low lands with tile twenty-one 

 feet apart and sub-irrigation is the system usually em- 

 ployed. However surface irrigation is being employed 

 with much success. On low land the tile acts as drain- 

 age in wet weather and supplies the water when needed, 

 by allowing it to perculate the soil. Artesian wells are be- 

 ing used generally to supply the water. 



