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This shows where the plants are to be set and gives a per- 

 fectly straight row and uniform distance for setting. The 

 plants may then be set, the dirt may be pressed to the roots 

 and the water turned on. 



ClTLiTIVATION. 



Frequent, shallow cultivation with a fine tooth harrow 

 should be "made. When the plants have been set thirty 

 days, a second application of two thousand pounds per 

 acre of good vegetable fertilizer should be scattered broad- 

 cast and stirred in with a cultivator. Three- weeks later 

 an application of three hundred pounds of nitrate of soda 

 per acre should be used, and repeated every ten days un- 

 til celery is ready for bleaching. Celery is an expensive 

 crop and one can not neglect it. Quick and steady growth 

 insures a product that is tender and crisp. These quali- 

 ties are essential to good prices. An acre of good celery 

 should yield eight hundred to one thousand crates and it 

 usually nets about a dollar per crate — sometimes more. 

 These prices justify one in going to the expense." The 

 plant is hardy, and will stand a temperature of twenty- 

 two without injury if it is in a normal condition. 



Bleaching. 

 Boards twelve to fourteen inches wide are used in 

 bleaching. One is placed on each side and brought up 

 against the plant at the top. Second grade cypress is usu- 

 ally used for this purpose. One to two weeks are required 

 to bleach it, ard when this is done the plants are cut and 

 packed in standard crates and loaded in refrigerator cars. 

 This vegetable does not carry well in warm weather and 

 refrigeration is necessary. 



