HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 
1914 
Your Grounds can be made as Beautiful 
as these. Let Wagner show you how. 
W AGNER PARK Landscape Artists solved the problem of these grounds, co¬ 
operating with Nature to make beauty where there was none before and to 
screen all that is unlovely behind quick-growing trees and curtaining vines 
of perennial beauty. 
They can do as much for your grounds. No matter where you live or -whether 
yours be a great estate or a modest suburban lot, Wagner Plants, planted according 
to Wagner Plans will give you the joy of blooming splendor from early spring until 
frost. They will relieve the bleak monotony of your winter landscape with the bold 
verdure of clustering evergreens. 
Tell us your problem. We will work it out for you nozv and when planting time 
conies we will ship you the hardy everlastings, the roses and trailing vines, the 
grasses and shrubs and trees that will be best suited to your particular needs and 
that will give you the most immediate returns. 
Our method of packing insures delivery of every plantin perfect condition, ready to 
resume its growth where it was interrupted 
I when removed from the fertile soil of the 
' ' 1 -I Wagner Park Nurseries. We will send our 
|P!vj|j ! ' ! £'| j| jjj own experts to plant them if you so order. 
Write today for our illustrated 
4' Catalog 27. It will be mailed to 
'' ■ . ... : you without cost or obligation. 
The Wagner Park Nursery 
Company 
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operate a hotbed, it will undoubtedly be¬ 
come widely used. 
Very little space will be required to 
grow a home supply of celery in a condi¬ 
tion to last through the fall and into the 
midwinter months. Celery is unlike the 
other salads, in that it requires a very long 
season to mature. So you must get an early 
start with it, especially if you want some 
for use during the early fall, September 
and October. White Plume, Silver Plume 
and Golden Self Blanching, Paris Golden, 
are the sorts to use for this first sowing, 
which should be made in flats the latter 
part of February or the first part of March. 
The soil should be very light and the seed 
barely covered from sight. If it is soaked 
in quite warm water for twenty-four, or 
even forty-eight hours, before planting, 
germination will be hastened. It is also a 
good plan to place an inch or so of rich 
compost at the bottom of the seed boxes, as 
the seedlings will remain a good deal 
longer before they need to be transplanted 
than those of most other vegetables, such 
as cabbage and lettuce. 
At all stages of growth, celery requires 
an abundance of water. The best way to 
soak a flat of seedlings thoroughly is to im¬ 
merse it partly in a tub or sink and let the 
water soak up into the soil from below 
until the moisture shows upon the top. The 
seedlings are very small and frail, and as 
they begin to crowd each other easily be¬ 
come ‘‘lodged” from watering with the 
watering can or hose, and are then pretty 
sure to damp off. When they become two 
or three inches tall they should be clipped 
over with the shears and cut back about a 
third or more. Then, if they are not 
crowding each other, they can be left a 
week or two more before being trans¬ 
planted. But they must be got out of the 
seed boxes before they become weak and 
spindling. They may be transplanted into 
other flats or into the open ground, and set 
in rows six or eight inches apart and two 
inches or so apart in the row; then they 
will make strong, stocky plants before be¬ 
ing set out in their permanent position, for 
which they will be ready during the latter 
part of July. 
They prefer a moist soil, but can be 
grown in any ordinary garden soil, if water 
can be given during the dry spells of mid¬ 
summer. The ground should be made very 
rich, and special fertilization should be 
given in the row in which the plants are to 
be set to give them a good start. Leaves 
and roots should be trimmed back at each 
transplanting. 
The plants are usually set out six inches 
apart in rows which are three or four 
feet apart, and, after being well cultivated 
and cared for for three or four weeks, the 
leaves are gathered up into an upright posi¬ 
tion and held so either by drawing an or¬ 
dinary string about the stalks or by setting 
boards up on each side of the row. In do¬ 
ing this, care must be taken not to get any 
soil into the heart of the stalk. That 
wanted for early use is blanched in rows by 
banking it up with earth, or with boards 
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