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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 
1914 
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coating frame houses and photographs of the results obtained. 
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IS THE SETTING EXQUISITE THAT ENHANCES 
THE BEAUTY OF FLOWERS 
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catalogue of Flower Pots. 
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ing it over the plant, to allow a circulation 
of air and prevent the possibility of injur¬ 
ing the stalks in hot or wet weather. 
Again, hoards or “celery paper" may be 
used. By any of these methods a distance 
between rows of two to three feet will be 
enough. But if the usual method of 
blanching with earth is to be followed, a 
distance of four or five feet should be 
allowed. Or the plants may be set in 
double rows, five or six feet apart. 
At the season when the plants are set in 
the garden—mid-June to August—soil 
and weather conditions are very likely to 
be unfavorable. To overcome this, every 
precaution must be taken to give the little 
plants a good start. The soil, of course, 
should be dug deep and finely pulverized 
with the rake, and planted at once while 
the surface is still moist. The plants are 
put in four to six inches apart. If the soil 
is very dry, open up a furrow with the 
double-plow attachment on the wheel 
hoe; mix in the compost or fertilizer, and 
then irrigate the trench with plenty of 
water and plant as soon as it soaks away 
enough so that the earth can be covered 
back into it. Set the plants in up to. but 
not over, the heart, and press them into 
the soil firmly. 
Begin clean level cultivation at once, 
and repeat it frequently, to induce the 
plants to make as quick and strong a 
growth as possible. By the middle of 
August, or a little before if you have 
planted early, the earliest plants will be 
ready for the operation which celery 
growers call “handling." This is the first 
step in the blanching process, upon which 
the quality of the celery will depend. 
With the hand hoe, or the hilling attach¬ 
ment of the wheel hoe, work soil up to 
the plants in the row, then work it in close 
about the stalks by hand. As the plants 
grow taller, which they will do very rap- 
idlv after this “treatment,” further blanch¬ 
ing is required for as much of the crop as 
one intends to use directly from the gar¬ 
den. Drain tile may be used, or boards 
placed against either side of the row, and 
held by stakes, with earth thrown up 
against the bottom to hold them in place 
and exclude the light. But the method 
most commonly used, banking up with 
earth, is satisfactory and produces the 
finest quality. With a spade the earth be¬ 
tween the rows is dug out and banked up 
against the row of plants, clear to the tops 
of the growing stalks, so that nothing but 
the top leaves remain visible. This method 
of blanching is for early use. For late 
fall and winter use the growing plants 
need to be “handled” only, as the blanch¬ 
ing is done after they are taken up. There 
are two simple ways of doing this. The 
first is to make a few long, narrow boxes, 
about a foot wide and nearly as deep as 
the celery is high, in the bottoms of which 
place sand or sandy soil and wet thor¬ 
oughly. Take up the celery, with what¬ 
ever dirt may adhere to the roots, and 
pack upright, close together. Store the 
boxes in a cellar or other dark, dry, cold 
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