OF ONE ACRE. 
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^hady corner for the seed; if such situation is not 
to be had, the seed can be sown in a spent hotbed, 
cold frame or other convenient place, and can be 
artificially shaded with fresh brush or lath shades 
through the hottest part of the day. Celery is nat¬ 
urally a swamp plant, and to make a rapid growth 
should have the ground as rich as possible, and also 
as much water as possible, without making the ground 
heavy and sour. The soil should not be allowed to 
become dry or baked, and the weeds should be pulled 
out as soon as they appear. This bed, and, indeed, all 
other seed beds, should be made very rich with well- 
rotted manure; not with horse-stable manure or phos¬ 
phate, as both of them are dry and heating, and in 
dry weather would stunt or entirely burn up the young 
plants. The seed should be sown in drills about 
six inches apart, to admit of working the soil with 
a narrow hoe, as the continued watering will harden 
the surface of the bed and check the growth of the 
young plants. When the plants are well up they 
should be thinned out so as to stand an inch apart 
in the drills, and if the plants are ready some little 
time before they are wanted for setting out, they can 
be made more stocky and stronger by shearing off 
about half of the tops. 
When ready to set out, I run a double furrow where 
the row is to be—that is, the plow is run both ways 
in the same furrow, casting up a ridge of dirt on 
either side of a shallow trench ; then in the bottom 
of this trench fine compost or well-rotted manure is 
placed to the depth of one to two inches, and some 
of the fine soil from the sides is drawn down over 
