CELERY IS A BUILT-UP PLANT 
large scale until the present generation. Scientific truck 
growers near Boston and New York and then those in 
California, Florida, and the Lake states began to grow 
larger quantities of it. They found that it could be 
planted very thick in rows, that if the sun was kept away 
from the stems, they would be white, and that it could be 
crated and shipped thousands of miles. 
Thus was an industry developed, based on the odd 
tendency of one of the parsley plants to produce big stems 
for its leaves. It is no uncommon thing for an acre of 
celery to produce a crop that is worth four thousand dol¬ 
lars. The man who farms forty acres in celery has a big 
business on which it is possible to amass hundreds of 
thousands of dollars. Now celery rides all about the 
country in carload lots. There are huge cold storage 
warehouses here and there that are full of celery. In all 
the important markets of the nation celery is offered for 
sale. Most of the people of the nation eat it at least 
occasionally. And it all comes about from a fact that it 
is almost as strange as though a liking for pigs’ knuckles 
had shrunk other parts of pigs until nine-tenths of these 
animals were feet. 
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