RURALISMS 
Pithy Celery 
What is the cause and remedy for hol¬ 
low, tough celery, especially the outside 
stalks? F. s. 
Genoa, O. 
Celery sometimes becomes pithy by rea¬ 
son of too long season of growth, and oc¬ 
casionally is due to the nature of the soil 
in which it is grown. For late or Win¬ 
ter use the seed should not be sown much 
before the middle of April, and the plants 
should not be set out until about July 1, 
and in favored localities it might be well 
to defer planting out until the 15th of 
July or even till the first of August. If 
the plants are set out too early iu the sea¬ 
son, under favorable growing conditions 
they are apt to reach their maximum 
growth prematurely, and while the season 
is still favorable for continued growth. 
When this occurs the plants will com¬ 
mence to send up seed stalks, though 
such growth may not be far advanced, 
perhaps only noticeable by length of the 
base above the roots to the extent of a 
couple of inches or so, yet that is suffi¬ 
cient to make the leaf stalks pithy and 
render the entire plant unfit for table use. 
Celery delights in a rich, rather heavy 
soil, and when planted in such soils at the 
proper time, and properly cared for. it 
seldom fails to give a satisfactory crop. 
Celery will as a rule do well on almost 
any kind of soil provided it is made rich 
and put in good mechanical condition, yet 
it is a fact well known that occasionally 
some of the most solid kinds will become 
more or less pithy when planted on soft, 
loose soils, such as peat bogs, where the 
soil is composed mostly of leaf mold, 
whereas the same kinds will be much 
heavier and better when planted on heavy 
or clayey soils. The outside leaf stalks 
are never fit for table use, as the long 
season of growth makes them pithy long 
before the blanching process begins. It 
is only the heart stalks which are of 
more recent growth that will blanch and 
become crisp and sweet. The outer leaf¬ 
stalks are always pulled off and thrown 
aside when preparing the vegetable for 
table use or for market. K. 
English Walnuts in Delaware 
Two trees I have were grown from 
nuts planted by my brother, now deceased, 
and I am quite confident were never 
grafted (or budded). They are about 23 
years old and have borne a crop every 
year since I came here, in 1913, though 
they produce most heavily every other 
year, like apples. The nuts seems alike 
from both trees and are very fine. I have 
grown a few seedlings from selected nuts 
from my bearing trees for several years 
past, for local sale. Of course there is 
no certainty that such trees will produce 
nuts as fine as they were grown from, 
but purchasers are told that they are 
seedling trees, and they are certain of get- 
ing some very fine shade trees if they do 
not produce fine nuts. I have several on 
my lot at Westfield, N. J.. about seven 
years old. There are several trees in this 
section in bearing. One of my neigh¬ 
bors, John H. Herring, I understand, sold 
$30 worth of nuts from one tree this year. 
Tree quite old, ungrafted. 
If I had a farm in this section I think 
I would have a email grove of the trees 
on it, but whether it would pay is a mat¬ 
ter rather problematical. Like many 
other things it would be more or less of a 
gamble. It takes so long for them to 
come into bearing that many are deterred 
from setting them, fearing they will never 
live to see them reach maturity. 
Delaware. j. e. scott. 
My father planted in 1906 a grove of 
350 Pomeroy walnuts. They are just 
beginning to bear now, but it looks as if 
every tree would bear a different type of 
nut. We have one tree about 25 years old 
that bore one bushel of nuts tfiis year. 
The nut that it grew from was sent to 
my father from Washington. 
Kent Co., Del. JACOB A. ROOSA. 
Large Popcorn 
On page 1375 is an article on big pop¬ 
corn by A. Vail Smith. Connecticut, and 
cut of the ear of popcorn, natural size. 
Six or eight yea re ago I located in a small 
field of rice popcorn quite a large number 
of ears as large, and, if anything, more 
handsome and perfect that the ear shown 
in the picture referred to. So elated was 
I over what I considered a new and ex¬ 
ceptional strain of the rice corn that the 
following year I planted a little more 
than a quarter of an ncre, and raised, if 
anything, more beautiful stock than from 
the seed collected. This crop was thor¬ 
oughly cured, but, much to my disappoint¬ 
ment, when I came to test the corn for 
popping, only a small portion of it would 
pop. I therefore discontinued any further 
test, and used the balance of that year’s 
crop for feeding purposes. 
New York. Arthur cowee. 
R. N.-Y.—Mr. Smith writes us that 
this big-eared corn pops well. It seems to 
be the general belief that the explosion 
which makes the corn “pop” on being 
heated is connected with small kernels 
and lost in large ones. 
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