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CELERY— ARRANGING FOR A CROP 
SUCCESSION 
W HILE early celery, from seeds sown as described 
on preceding page, may be had by middle of Au- 
gust, the early crop can never lay claim to the quality 
found in later sorts requiring a longer season of growth. 
The main crop of celery is generally harvested during 
late summer and fall, from seeds sown early in March, 
in a cold frame or early in April outdoors. 
Sow seeds in a cold frame just like in hotbed or seed 
flat. Outdoors, sow seeds in a carefully prepared bed, 
with rows a foot apart. Seedlings generally appear in 
two or three weeks after sowing. If they come up too 
thickly, thin them out to stand an inch apart in the row. 
When they form the third or fourth pair of leaves, trans- 
plant them into another bed, four inches apart. 
Sow seeds, at one and the same time, of one or two good 
early sorts and a better keeping late variety. A packet 
generally contains enough seeds to raise 500 plants, 
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