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VEGETABLE GARDENING. 



to go, and in these about three inches of fine, v/ell-rotted ma- 

 nure or compost should be placed. This manure should be thor- 

 oughly mixed with the soil, and the furrow nearly filled. For 

 mixing the manure and soil perhaps there is no better imple- 

 ment than a one horse cultivator with tho teeth set close to- 

 gether. If the land is unusually rich in plant food, there is no 

 need of going to this trouble, but the plants may be set right 

 after the marker. In any case the rows should be four or five 

 feet apart for the common kinds that have to be bleached by 

 banking up with earth, but the self-bleaching and dwarf kinds 

 can be managed in rows three feet apart. The plants should be 

 about six inches apart in the rows. 



Before the plants are dug from the seedbed, it should be 

 thoroughly soaked with water; the plants should have the tops 

 cut off, trimmed, and the roots dipped in water. If the roots are 

 very long they should be shortened so they may be easily han- 

 dled. The place where they are to be planted should be moist, 

 and every precaution taken to prevent the plants drying out 

 when they are being moved. Special attention should be given to 

 planting on freshly plowed land and to firming the soil around 

 the roots. If the land is dry it must be watered before it is safe 

 CO set out celery plants, and if the weather is very hot and dry 

 che plants must also be shaded from the sun. The ground should 

 be kept clean and mellow between the plants with a horse culti- 

 vator throughout the season. 



If, while the crop is growing, it is thought the plants re- 

 quire more food, it may be supplied by plowing a shallow fur- 

 row away from them on one side and putting in fine well-rotted 

 stable manure, hen manure or compost and covering it with soil. 

 This treatment supplies the food directly to the roots and is very 

 effective. Nitrate of soda or other nitrogenous fertilizer may 

 also be used to advantage rn this way. 



Celery and Onions Together. — In some sections celery is 

 grown as a second crop with onions. In this case every fourth 

 or fifth row is left vacant when the onion seed is sown, and this 

 space is set out to late celery plants at the proper time. If the 

 onion seed is sown by the 20th of April, almost any of the well- 

 known commercial sorts like Yellow Danvers or Red Wethers- 



