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as the yellow-fleshed varieties represented 
by Yellow Aberdeen, Yellow Globe, and the 
Golden Ball, may be sown until August. 
The seed may be sown broadcast, but not too 
thick, or they will not bottom. Wood-ash¬ 
es are excellent manure for Turnips, and a 
sprinkling of plaster (ground gypsum) on 
the young plants will always give them a 
fine start. In dry weather, an occasional 
sprinkling with house slops stimulates their 
growth. A very small plot of ground may 
be made to yield a large crop of Turnips, 
which may be useful on the table, and are 
more nutritious than is generally supposed. 
When Potatoes are high, the globe varie¬ 
ties of Turnips, in a measure, take their 
place, and furnish requisite vegetable food. 
In dry weather, the seed should be covered 
at least half an inch deep; when the ground 
is moist, the seed can be covered sufficiently 
with a garden rake. 
The American Garden. 
Blanching- Celery. 
W HILE we have never tried the follow¬ 
ing method of blanciing celery, we 
think it practicable for small quantities and 
trust our friends will try the experiment 
and report results. The article is from the 
Albany Cultivator: 
Keep the plants, when taken up, entirely 
away from earth, if intended for winter 
blanching. About the middle of November 
they are taken up on a dry day, and placed 
in water-tight troughs, or other vessels, in 
a quite dark cellar, the plants standing erect 
and closely together. Enough water is pour¬ 
ed on the roots to cover them, and the sup¬ 
ply is continued through the winter as it 
evaporates. This constitutes the entire la¬ 
bor. The stalks are gradually and hand 
somely blanched in the darkness, and ma¬ 
ny new ones spring up during the winter 
months, especially if the apartment is not 
very cold, and these new shoots are remark¬ 
able for their delicacy and perfect freedom 
from any particle of rust, appearing like 
polished ivory. A small, separate apart¬ 
ment in the cellar, without windows, an¬ 
swers well for this purpose. Boxes, tubs, 
or any vessels which will hold a few inches 
of water may be employed. The plants, as 
grown in the open ground, need not be 
earthed up at all, or they may be slightly 
earthed to bring them into a more compact 
form if desired. Probably the best way 
would be to adopt the course which is some 
tinies employed, of setting out the plants in 
summer on the level surface of deep, rich 
soil, eight or ten inches, or a foot apart each 
way, in order that their close growth may 
tend to give them a more upright form. 
They are merely kept clean by hoeing 
through the season. 
—The Sturdevant Bros, of Mass, have for 
years, made use of a principle in growing 
and saving seed corn, that ought to be 
practiced by every farmer in the land. 
We all know that in raising fine stock of 
horses, cattle or sheep, it is as necessary to 
breed from selected males as females, and 
a neglect to do this will show at once in 
the progeny. Why not be as careful in 
growing fruits and grains? Set off a plot 
of ground on which to grow corn for seed 
and as soon as it has tasseled. out, go 
through it and cu4 the tassels which pro¬ 
duce the pollen, from all the weak and in¬ 
ferior plants. Then in the fall save for 
seed the earliest and best formed ears and 
they will be doubly valuable, having been 
fertilized only by the best and most vigor¬ 
ous. We have no doubt but that our crops 
of corn would be raised to a much higher 
standard, were this principle carried out 
for a few years. 
—Millet and Hungarian grass should be 
cut when young, just after they have fully 
headed out, to be of much value for feeding. 
When young and tender cattle will eat it 
greedily and thrive upon it, but if left till 
nearly ripe the stalks become woody and 
are of little more value than oat or rye straw. 
—An old gardener says, with regard to 
cultivating onions, that if care is taken to 
draw away the earth gradually from the 
bulbs until they are quite uncovered, and 
only the fibrous roots are in the earth, you 
will never have scullions, but very large, 
sound onions. 
