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pockets taken out, and these- pipes carry 
off all overplus of water that the regular 
four-inch mains may be unable to dis¬ 
pose of. 
To guard against accident which 
might occur in case of a violent rain com¬ 
ing on in the night when there was no 
one to attend to the outlet of the water 
by removing the plugs, I have placed in 
the pocket, about one-third from the end 
(the pocket in measurement being 12x16 
inches), a brick, water-tight partition ris¬ 
ing to within four inches of the surface. 
This partition is in the lower end of the 
pocket and has in it two holes, one near 
the bottom and the other near the top, 
four inches in diameter, lined with iron 
thimbles or pieces of four-inch pipe; and 
in these holes the plugs are placed in¬ 
stead of the actual outlet when I wish to 
raise the water. You will thus see that 
the water, after these holes are plugged, 
can only rise to within four inches of the 
surface, as it then comes to the top of the 
partition and flows over and passes 
through the outlet pipe. If, however, I 
wish to raise the water up to the surface, 
I plug the outlet pipe itself; if I wish to 
raise it only part way to the surface, 
considerably below the level of the top of 
the partition, I leave the plug in the low¬ 
er hole of the partition and remove it 
from the upper hole. 
I think the above description answers 
your question as to the method of irriga¬ 
tion pursued by me. I have described 
what is on my place and under my own 
charge; the same system is used by all 
the other growers in this neighborhood, 
some with slight variations but as a gen¬ 
eral thing the same; and, therefore, in 
describing one, I have described all. The 
present year is the first marketable crop 
that I have raised of celery, and as the 
crop is not yet marketed I cannot give 
you the results as to that. But I can 
say that on Irish potatoes, the present 
year, on this irrigated and drained land, 
I have raised an average of 140 barrels 
per acre, and off of i4-i6ths of an acre I 
have already marketed 251 barrels of 
cabbage, and have more to ship. 
PROPAGATION, BLEACHING, MARKETING, 
ETC. 
Relative to methods pursued by me as 
to propagation, bleaching, marketing, 
etc., I can only say that thus far the 
growing of celery in this part of Flor¬ 
ida is in an experimental stage, and I 
do not think that any two growers treat 
the crop exactly alike, and therefore I 
give you only my own methods. I plant 
the seed about the last of September, in 
beds about three feet wide and in drills 
four inches apart, sowing thickly. After 
the plant is about two inches high, I 
transplant it to a "‘prick bed” same size 
as seed bed, and set the plants 1 1-2 
inches apart and rows four inches apart. 
It requires about sixty days for the plant 
to acquire the proper size to be placed 
in the field; no exact time can be stated, 
as the size of the plant depends largely 
upon the fancy of the individual grower, 
some preferring larger plants than oth¬ 
ers. After being set in the field, which 
should have been well fertilized before 
the plants are taken up, it is simply a 
matter of time and constant cultivation 
and frequent light applications of ferti¬ 
lizer until ready for bleaching, which 
point must be judged entirely by the size 
of the plant. The bleaching usually re¬ 
quires about ten days. 
One-inch cypress boards 12 inches 
wide are used for this purpose, placed 
