CURRIE’s SEED STORE, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 
Golden 
Self-Blanching Celery. 
Celery is a crop that requires a very long season. 
If an early crop is to be grown from seeds, the latter 
must be started indoors in boxes about the last of Feb- 
ruary,.the plants being set in the ground, six inches 
apart, in May. The crop should be ready in August. 
Celery for winter may be grown from seeds started in 
the open ground in late April, but it is advisable to have 
a seed bed and to transplant the seedlings to the open 
field when large enough. It is well to cut off the lower 
half of the roots at transplanting time, and firming the 
soil around the plants is very important. 
About the middle of August the banking of the early crop can be 
begun. Earth may be drawn up around the plants or a twelve-foot 
board may be set on edge each side of row. The boards should in- 
cline toward each other so that they will be only three inches at the 
top. Cleats or hooks will hold them in place. From 10 to 20 days 
will be needed to blanch the celery. When there are only a few 
plants they may be wrapped with paper or tiles set over them. 
Celery for winter needs less earthing up, as it will blanch after 
being stored. Before freezing weather comes the plants should be 
lifted and the outside leaves removed. Then they should be stored 
in a cool cellar or in a vegetable pit outdoors, being set closely to- 
gether on the floor. The plants will keep well into the winter if 
simply set in trenches in the garden, being covered with boards over 
which hay, straw, leaves or manure is thrown. 
CELERY 
One ounce will furnish 5,000 to 10,000 plants. 
GOLDEN PLUME, OR WONDERFUL—It is similar to Golden 
Self Blanching, but matures earlier, is larger and more blight, and 
blanches in half the time. It possesses all the excellent qualities 
of that well known celery, and we believe it is the most profitable 
sort to grow. Pkt., 20c; % oz., $1.00; oz., $1.50; % lb., $5.00; 
1 lb., $17.50. 
EASY-BLANCHING (Originator’s Extra Selected Stock)—-The 
plants make a rapid growth of thick, very tender stalks of excellent 
quality, and while it bleaches very early, it is unsurpassed for 
winter storage. Pkt., 10c; ™% oz., 45c; oz., 80c; % lb., $2.40; 1 
lb., $8.00. 
COLUMBIA—Early, with thick round stalks of a rich yellow color, 
unsurpassed in quality. Pkt., 10c; oz., 40c; % lb., $1.40; 1 Ib., 
$5.00. 
GOLDEN SELF-BLANCHING (Paris Golden)—Originator’s Ex- 
tra Selected. The earliest and best of the self-blanching sorts. 
The plants are of dwarf compact habit, with thick, solid stalks 
of a waxy-yellow color. Pkt., 10c; ™% oz., 60c; oz., $1.00; j%4 Ib., 
$3.25; 1 lb., $12.00. 
WHITE PLUME (Extra Selected)—A favorite early self-blanch- 
ing variety. It requires very little earthing up. Stalks crisp and 
sweet. Pkt., 10c; 0z., 35c; % Ib., $1.00; 1 1lb., $3.00. 
WINTER QUEEN—A compact variety with large, broad, creamy 
white stalks, crisp and tender. Pkt., 10c; oz., 35c; % lb., $1.00; 
1 lb., $3.00. 
SOUP, OR FLAVORING CELERY—Not for planting purposes, 
but seed is used for flavoring. Oz., 10c; ™% lb., 20c; 1b., 60c. 
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