Market-garden Farm Competition, 1879. 
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a great amount of work, of which some idea may be gained when 
it is stated that it requires 10,000 celerv plants per acre, set at 
one foot apart in the rows, and that Mr. Lancaster usually plants 
about 46 acres, which would take 460,000 plants. London 
manure to the depth of a foot is put into the trenches prepared 
for the celery plants, and covered with soil. The trenches are 
5 feet 6 inches apart, and the distance from plant to plant in 
the trenches is one foot. Earthing up is done by hand gradually, 
three or four times, to suit the growth of the plants. Early in 
the next spring radishes are sown thickly upon the spaces lately 
occupied by the celery ; or cauliflowers or coleworts are planted, 
all of which thrive wonderfully in the richly manured soil. 
Celery is grown again in the next season. In many parts of 
this land, where the soil is best suited for celery, this crop has 
been taken now five years successively, the position of the 
trenches having been shifted each year, and radishes and other 
quick growing crops grown upon their situation in alternate 
years. The beds of radishes are 4 feet 6 inches wide, and 
one foot is allowed for the celery trenches, so that in the autumn 
when the catch crops are gone the celery has a space of 5 feet 
6 inches. At the time of the first inspection over 5000 dozen 
of bunches were being marketed each week, and made from 
6c?. to 8c?. per dozen bunches. They were turnip radishes, 
known as French radishes in the market, of a bright pink 
colour, beautifully shaped and cutting firm even to the largest 
and oldest bulbs. As many as 1500 dozen bunches are occa- 
sionally grown per acre, but an average crop runs to about 
1200 dozen bunches, a bunch being a good sized handful. 
In other parts of the land coleworts, or cabbages, or cauliflowers 
were planted in the spaces between the celery, and in one part 
there were rows of splendid Paris Cos lettuces ready for tying, 
and the celery plants between were looking fresh and vigorous. 
Near the house there were innumerable small frames set in 
rows with plants of vegetable-marrows within them, which were 
covered with glass by night and served to protect the plants 
from the weather until they were well established. These 
plants were strong and luxuriant, and in fact were almost the 
only marrows that the Judges saw which looked like yielding 
a good crop. Rows of osiers were planted at intervals in this 
place to serve as a shelter for marrows, or cucumbers, or other 
delicate plants that may be cultivated. Osiers are grown upon 
most of the market-gardens in corners or wet places, to furnish 
twigs for bunching radishes, and other produce, and rods for 
making baskets. Near the marrow frames were many hundred 
thousands of Veitch's cauliflower plants in a seed-bed, and many 
