CHAPTER IV. 
VEGETABLES SUITED TO FARM CULTURE IN SOME LOCATIONS. 
In this portion of the book are grouped a number of vege- 
tables not adapted to every farm or location. The list includes 
celery, water cress, cucumbers, egg plants, kale, lettuce, 
melons, mushrooms, onions, peas, radishes, rhubarb, spinach, 
sweet potato, etc. Where favored locations for their produc- 
tion exist on farms they may be grown with profit, if mar- 
kets are accessible. 
CELERY. 
On very many farms there are meadows with deep, rich 
soils that are now lying under grass; or, worse, under tus- 
socks and swamp weeds. Some locations are subject to 
disastrous overflow during freshets, but innumerable spots 
exist where such meadows could with safety be converted 
into celery gardens, capable of easy irrigation, either situated 
above the level of floods or susceptible of artificial protection 
by means of cheap embankments. Such situations are en- 
tirely too valuable to use for pasturage. They are the truck 
gardens of the future. 
Perfect Celery. — The object in celery-growing is to pro- 
duce thick, robust, tender, solid, crisp, sweet leaf stalks, free 
from rust or insect attacks. The essentials are rich land and 
Celery. — We recommend Golden Self-Blanching and White Plume 
for early, Perle Le Grand for both early and late and Winter Queen for 
late. The latter is the very best keeper. See "Johnson & Stokes' 
Garden and Farm Manual." 
