Burpee’s Finest Celery 
For the earliest crop, start the seed in a hotbed or in the house during 
February or March. For the fall or main crop, sow the seed in the 
open ground as early in the spring as the soil can be worked into good 
condition. They will be ready for setting in rows in July. Celery 
requires a rich, well-manured soil and plenty of moisture so that it 
can make a continuous growth. Soil, boards, or paper cylinders may 
be used to blanch the stalks. One oz. of seed is sufficient for 600 
ft. of drill. One oz. sown in the seed-flat gives 8,000 to 10,000 good 
strong plants; 2 ozs. are needed for planting one acre. 
The early (E) varieties of Celery mature in about 120 days from the 
time the seed is sown. They are adapted for starting indoors, or 
outdoors when the ground is fit for planting. The late (L) Celeries 
need 140 days to come to maturity. They are planted extensively 
for late fall use and winter storing, although many of the early 
varieties also store quite well. 
Burpee's Golden Self-Blanching 
260 Golden Self-Blanching 
(E) This is the American-grown seed produced from the dwarf 
French-grown stock. It exhibits all the excellent qualities of the 
original and is sown extensively by home gardeners as well as by 
market growers. The dwarf compact plants are heavy and solid. 
The heart is large, tender, well blanched, solid, and has a delightful 
nutty, crisp, and juicy flavor. It will yield a good crop of attractive 
Celery if grown under average conditions suitable for this crop. 
Pkt. 10^; V 2 oz. 25^1 oz. 45?!; 4 ozs. $1.35; y 2 lb. $2.45; lb. $4.50. 
267 Easy Blanching © 
Good Keeper; Fine Flavor; Crisp and Brittle 
(E) This is a midseason or second-early Celery which will be ready 
for use soon after Golden Self-Blanching. It resembles Golden Self- 
Blanching in size and general characteristic of growth, but the foliage 
is a beautiful bright rich green. The plants make a vigorous, upright yet 
compact.growth, and the stalks are easily blanched to a beautiful pure 
white color. They are thick, solid, heavy, unusually meaty, pure white, 
crisp, altogether free from any fiber or strings, and of extra fine flavor. 
Easy Blanching has desirable blight-resistant qualities and has proved 
to be hardier than Golden Self-Blanching. While it is a midseason 
Celery, it also stores well throughout the winter. Pkt. 10?!; V 2 oz. 25?!; 
oz. 45?!; 4 ozs. $1.35; Vz lb. $2.45; lb. $4.50. 
Golden Plume (see next page) 
262 Burpee’s 
Golden Self-Blanching O 
Selected French-Grown Seed: Original 
Dwarf Strain 
(E) There are many growers who insist on having the 
original French-grown seed of this foremost Celery though 
it is somewhat more expensive than the American-grown 
seed. The plants make a compact dwarf growth and form 
thick, solid, heavily ribbed stalks which blanch easily into 
a beautiful clear waxen yellow color. The quality of this 
variety is superb. The stalks and heart are crisp, solid, 
heavy, free from any strings, and of the most delicious 
flavor. It is a standard market and shipping variety, 
growing 14 to 18 in. tall. Imported seed grown specially for 
us in France. Pkt. 20?!; \'2 oz. 60?!; oz. $1.00; 4 ozs. $3.00; 
1/2 lb. $5.50; lb. $10.00. 
Easy 
Blanching 
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W. Atlee Burpee Co., Seed Growers, Philadelphia, Pa. 
