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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Before the stalks are sent to table, they are blanched by 

 excluding the light from them. This is done in many ways, most 

 usually by tying up the outer leaves around the inner ones, and 

 then earthing up the stalks as far as the lowest leaves. This is not 

 generally done all at once, but at first the stalks are earthed up for 

 about one-third of their height, and, eight or ten days afterwards, 



Solid White Celery natural size). Golden-yellow Large Solid Celery. 



Up to two-thirds, the remaining third being completed at the end 

 of eight or ten days more. 



Sometimes the plants are taken up with balls and planted side 

 by side in a trench, which is then filled with soil ; and sometimes 

 they are planted in spring in trenches, where they are blanched 

 when the time comes, without being transplanted, by filling in the 

 trench with the soil which was taken out in opening it. 



Solid White Celery. — A vigorous-growing kind, i6 to 20 in. 

 high, with fleshy, solid, and tender stalks,' which, in blanching, 



