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A. G. TILLINGHAST'S SEED CATALOGUE 
Gardening on Puget Sound 
I know of no place or country where Garden Vegetables can be more easily 
grown than on Puget Sound. Nor do I know of any place where the vegetables 
are larger or of better flavor. Cabbages, Cauliflower, Celery, Carrots, Beets, 
Parsnips. Salsify, Peas, etc., are especially tender, sweet and fine quality grown 
here. They can stand in the garden and be fit for the table for a much longer 
season than they can in the Eastern States or in hotter climates. Our Sweet 
Corn is green and tender nearly all the fall, and we do not need the late Ever- 
green kinds they have to grow for late use in the East. Our Peas and Beans also 
are fit for use for a long time before they ripen. And our Cabbages, Celery, Car- 
rots. Parsnips. Salsify and Onion can stand out in the garden nearly all winter. 
So that there is hardly any day from the time that Rhubarb and Asparagus are 
ready in April till April comes again but we can find fresh vegetables ready for 
use in the garden. 
In planning for your garden this year, provide for some of those hardy vege- 
tables that can be left out all winter and be ready for use at any time, whether 
you hare a good cellar or not. 
HOW TO GROW CAULIFLOWER. 
The secret of growing Cauliflowers is to keep them growing from the time the 
seed sprouts till the head is ready to cut. If the plant stops growing, or gets 
stunted at any time, it will never make a good head. The Cauliflower is much 
more tender and delicate than the Cabbage. A Cabbage plant may get checked 
in its growth, and yet be started again and do well; but not so with Cauliflower. 
They need richer soil and better cultivation than Cabbages. Start the plants in 
a rich seed bed, and do not let them get drawn or stand too long or get dried up 
in the plant bed. When large enough, take up carefully, the dirt with the roots, 
and set out 2Y2 feet apart in rich, deep soil, and give good, clean cultivation. 
They need water vvhen heading. As soon as a head is ready for use, cut it, and 
use or sell or give it away, for they will grow out and spoil for use in a few days 
after they are ready. This is a good country for Cauliflower growing. Use only 
good seed. Good Cauliflower seed is very expensive, and only the best is worth 
planting. 
HOW TO GROW AND MANAGE CELERY. 
A great many people fail at the start with their Celery in growing the plants. 
Celery seed comes up very slowly, and is weak and slow growing for a long time 
after it is up. It takes about three weeks for it to come up, and the weeds gen- 
erally take it before it is large enough to weed out. Select a very rich place for 
your seed bed, as clean of weed seeds as you can find. Sow quite shallow and mix 
a few Radish seeds with the Celery seed. The radishes will come up and show 
in a few days, and you will know by them where the rows of Celery are and can 
cultivate between the rows before the Celery is up. After you can see the Celery 
plants you can pull out the Radishes, and you have got ahead of the weeds. As 
soon as the Celery plants are large enough to handle, transplant into another rich 
bed two or three inches apart each way. You thus get strong, stocky plants that 
have plenty of roots. The latter part of June, or the first part of July, set the 
plants out where they are to grow. It is not necessary to set in deep trenches 
as they used to do, but in shallow drills, six inches apart in the row, and the 
rows six feet apart, in order to get soil enough for hilling up for blanching. To 
grow large, crisp Celery, the ground should be very rich, and, if not moist, then 
water should be applied in dry weather. Sub-irrigation, or water from below, is 
the best, as in a peat or muck soil or very deep loam; but if that cannot be had, 
then surface irrigation will answer. 
About three weeks before you want to use or sell the Celery, commence hilling 
up. Draw the stems and leaves with the hands upright around the central bud or 
