CAULIFLOWER-—CELERY 
known. It spreads very rapidly at times. 
The center of the stem and head usually 
rot first so that the plant may be beyond 
recovery before the presence of the dis- 
ease is detected. The odor arising from 
the decaying heads is very repulsive. 
Rotation seems to be the only remedy. 
Literature 
Cornell Bulletin No. 292. 
CAULIFLOWER PESTS 
The pests of cauliflower are common to 
the cabbage and will be found treated 
under cabbage. 
CAULIFLOWER, How GROWN IN ALASKA. 
See Alaska. 
Celery 
More and more celery is growing into 
favor as a garden vegetable It grew 
wild in England, beside the ditches, in 
marshy places, in swamps, especially near 
the sea, producing a furrowed stalk, with 
compound leaves and wedge-shaped leaf- 
lets. In its native state, the plant has a 
coarse, rank taste and peculiar smell. 
By cultivation and blanching the stalks 
lose their acrid qualities and assume a 
mild, sweet, aromatic taste peculiar to 
celery as a salad plant. 
Propagation 
Celery is grown from seed, sown either 
in a hotbed or in the open garden, accord- 
ing to the season of the year, and after 
one or two thinnings out and transplant- 
ings they are, on attaining the height of 
six or eight inches, planted out in deep 
trenches convenient for blanching. The 
blanching process is one of the most im- 
portant in the production of celery, and 
consists in “earthing up,” or drawing the 
earth around the plant to exclude the 
light. 
Soils Best Adapted 
Celery is a native of the swamps, gen- 
erally adjacent to the sea. Since the 
draining of the swamp lands near the 
Great Lakes, large areas of those sections 
are adapted to the growing of celery. In 
this industry perhaps Michigan takes the 
lead. However, in the arid regions, where 
irrigation is practiced, celery can be 
grown anywhere and the soils too wet 
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for most other crops, and too strong in 
alkali, may be used for the growing of 
celery, and in this manner the “seepage 
lands” utilized for a very profitable crop. 
Celery has been successfully grown on 
lands that in the winter were white with 
alkali. 
GRANVILLE LOWTHER 
For CULTURE IN ALASKa, see Alaska. 
Growing Celery in an Irrigated Section 
*J. L. Reid, Colorado Experiment Sta- 
tion, writes as follows: 
Varieties 
In commercial growing only two vari- 
eties are being used at the present time 
to any great extent. These are the Golden 
Self-blanching for the early market, and 
Giant Pascal for the late market. These 
supply all that the present market re- 
quires, for by proper methods, Golden 
Self-blanching can be put on the market 
from early August until the Giant Pascal 
is ready and this latter can be held as 
long as it is profitable to keep it in stor- 
age. The Golden Self-blanching is not as 
crisp and tender nor of as good quality 
as the Giant Pascal, but owing to its 
earliness, the ease with which it is 
blanched and the fact that so much more 
can be grown to an acre, it is far the 
more important in respect to the amount 
grown. Pascal celery does not come onto 
the market until about the first of No- 
vember and we are entirely dependent on 
the self-blanching up to that time. 
Seed 
Most of the seed is procured from 
American dealers, but the growers nearly 
always ask for French grown seed, be- 
cause in that country the seed is usually 
more carefuliy selected. A few growers 
have sometimes grown their own seed 
and obtained excellent results by its use. 
Sometimes a grower will raise enough 
seed one year to last him several seasons, 
preferring to do this rather than use 
seed bought from unknown = sources. 
Owing to failures as the result of poor 
seed, the use of home grown seed would 
be more than justified, even though it 
cost more. 
* Bulletin 144, Colorado Experiment Station 
