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Send a post card to-day for the 70th 
Annual Storrs & Harrison Catalog. In 
it you will find the kinds of seeds that 
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what is probably the largest seed and nursery business 
in America. For 1924, as in the past, we have listed 
only those strains which we are sure will prove most 
satisfactory. Storrs & Harrison Seeds, Fruit Trees, 
Plants and Shrubs are not excelled in sturdiness. You’ll 
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Essentials of Growing Celery 
Would you give me the essentials of 
celery growing? That is, when to set it 
and how : what soil is best suited for it 
and fertilizers to use; how to blanch it 
and keep it over Winter and other things 
necessary for raising good celery. 
Forestville, N. Y. r.. n. 
The best kind of soil for growing celery 
is a heavy loam, which will hold mois¬ 
ture better than a sandy loam, but do 
not make the mistake of planting it on 
soggy soil, for it does not like wet feet 
any more than other kinds of vegetables. 
Sow seed the first, week in May on a 
finely prepared bed. It is better to sow 
seed after a rain has fallen on the 
freshly plowed ground. Rake very fine, 
then run over it with a hand roller. Take 
a 3x4 in. scantling 6 ft. long., and nail 
pieces 1 in. square, a foot long, on the 
3x4 one foot apart. Sharpen ends rest¬ 
ing on ground, nail two 1x2 6 ft. long 
on top of the 3x4 for handles to pull the 
marker by. Stretch a line where you 
want first row. Pull marker down the 
line to end of bed, then put the end 
tooth in the last row and pull back 
agaiu, then you will not have to change 
line. After marking out rows, sow seed 
with drill about % in. deep. Use about 
one ounce of seed for 500 ft. The best 
variety in my estimation is Sanford's 
Easy Blanching. As soon as the plants 
are 3 in. high, begin spraying with Bor¬ 
deaux mixture for blight, and do this 
once a week until celery plants are ready 
to transplant which will be about the 
middle of July. 
After preparing ground pull plains 
and sort them, putting the large strong 
plants in one pail, that has about 3 in. 
of water in it, after trimming tops anil 
ends of roots off, 'and putting smaller 
plants in another pail. By that way of 
handling them, the large plants are set 
separate from the smaller ones, and the 
entire row will be ready for market at 
the same time. Take a 1x3, nail lxl 
pieces on it 6 in. apart projecting 1 in., 
sharpen the Ixl’s, nail 10 on the 1x3, 
nail two 1x2 on the 1x3 for handles. 
Stretch your line and press your foot on 
1x3. making 10 holes at a time, after 
making a row of holes, take a large 
handful of plants out of pail of water 
with roots dripping, place a plant in a 
hole till all are out of hand. Then press 
dirt firmly to roots as you work back to 
pail, this manner of planting, of course, 
if you have no helper. If you have one 
to place plants in holes for you the work 
can be very speedily done. I do not set 
plants in morning if the sun is bright 
and hot, but start planting about 4 I*. M. 
Start hand cultivator as soon as you 
finish planting and keep it up at least 
once a week until the celery is large 
enough to begin to pull the soil up to 
it to make it grow in an upright condi¬ 
tion, which will be about the middle of 
August After the plants are rooted sow 
phosphate analyzing 3 per cent in am¬ 
monia, S per cent phosphoric acid, and G 
per cent in potash, each side of row 
close to plants, and work in with hand 
cultivator, at the rate of one ordinary 
pailful to 200 ft. of row. I do not like 
to put manure in bottom of row even 
if it is well rotted, for if we have a dry 
spell, it is bound to retard the growth of 
the celery. Keep spraying once a week 
to keep from blighting. Start pulling 
the soil up to the plants as soon as the 
stalks begin to spread. Be careful not 
to get any soil on the hearts. Care 
should also be taken that the heart is 
not lower than the surface of the ground 
when planted, for if a heavy rain should 
come and wash dirt over the heart, the 
plant will die. Pulling the soil up twice 
with a hoe is all that is necessary ; then 
stake boards up close to celery and it 
will blanch finely. The smaller plants 
will come on in time for late celery. Take 
this up when the nights are freezing cold. 
Leave as much soil on roots as possible, 
and pack about 50 roots in a crate, the 
sides of which should be as high as the 
celery. Store these crates in wagon- 
house or shed, and do not remove to 
cellar until the mercury drops to 10 or 
15. You can keep it from freezing by 
spreading several thicknesses of newspa¬ 
pers over it. It will keep better this way 
than when a large quantity is bulked to¬ 
gether. WM. PEKKIXS. 
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THE LEADING AMERICAN SEED CATALOG 
PLANTERS in all parts of America are coming 
more and more to realize that it pays to sow good 
seeds. Burpee Quality Seeds are the standard by 
which others are judged. 
It is well known that the House of Burpee has intro¬ 
duced more distinct new vegetables and flowers that 
are now in general cultivation than have any three other 
American Seed Houses combined. 
For 1924 we are offering some of the finest new varie¬ 
ties that have been introduced in recent years. Amongst 
the Burpee Novelties is our wonderful New Sweet 
Pea, The President Harding, which was named by special 
permission of the late President of the United States. 
In our new catalog we are also now offering for the 
first time the Philadelphia Bush Lima, which isthe earliest 
and most prolific of all Lima Beans, and the two New 
Sweet Corns, Delicious and Sunnybrook, which are a 
new development out of our famous Golden Bantam. 
New Giant Snapdragons, New Zinnias, New Dahlias, 
New Gladioli, and a New Self-Pruning Tomato are some 
of the new creations which are offered this year ex¬ 
clusively by W. Atlee Burpee Company. 
Burpee’s Annual is our catalog. It is the catalog that 
tells the plain truth about the Best Seed That Grow. 
If you are interested in gardening or farming 
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Seed Growers, Philadelphia. 
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