48 
the AMERICAN 
GARiJ^^''- 
EABLT ABHN&TON OELEET. 
CeleiT is one of the few vegetables with 
which the South cannot help us 
the season. While Florida and the Caiohnas 
furnish us fresh Peas and new Potatoes long 
before our ice-bound soil becomes fit to le- 
ceive the seed, Celery refuses to adapt itself 
to warmer .climates, and earhness therefoie 
can be gained only by growing eai-ly varieties. 
Our illustration represents a new variety 
of Celery, originated with Mr. John Wyman, 
and now introduced by Mr. W. W. Bawson 
ofBoston, for which is claimed not only e.x- 
tremeeariiness, but also freedom from blight 
under conditions when other e.ariy varieties 
fail; it also blanches readily, two bankings 
being sufficient for the purpose. Market 
gardener's in the vicinity of Boston consider 
this variety a decided improvement 
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of those elements will ^ 
om resources. J fertilizer, pai- 
ortwo, fromsuol . 1 v,g apparently 
ticularly on tl^e soil is be- 
satisfactory, ye , < ^ limited 
!£e^5tfasltrriia'lrl. If the process 
could be kept up indefinitely it 'vould be 
very different. To restore the land when i 
has been made “sick,” or exhausted, by 
stimulating fertilizers is one of the haidest 
and most exiicnsive processes in farming. 
<< A complete manure, a manure complete 
in a practical sense, one supplying all the 
leading plant-food elements in full propor- 
and i tions necessary to meet the requirements of 
soils and in the best and 
l>Uld VrtliCil/J - , , 
having received so high an endorsement as ] the crop on average suwo ...... - “ , , ,, 
the aLrd of the first prize of both the reg-1 varied forms-as found in stab - 
ularandspecialpremiumsofferedbytheMas-|ca)Mierere.r/ia»stttesoil, buton thecontiaiy, 
sachusetts Horticultural Society, at 
Cranberry Bean in that it was^IiT^ - 
and more angular, though the”*^’ 
specks were much the same as in ass 
nal. I thought I bad f ound a tre 
the year following planted every 
them. Imagine my surprise when t®®** "f 
to harvest the crop. There were ^ 
late Beans—some so late they did 
—Bush Beans and Pole Beans 
round Beans, white and red Beans 
speckled, flat, square and in shorr'^*’"'®'’ 
any variety of Beans that one 
imagine except prolific Beans, it 
as if, having once fairly broken 100^*^'®^ 
the steady unchanging ways of 
ccstors, they had found so much s**^ *®' 
it, that they could not readily 
changing. So they went on assumin? w 
ferent appearances until there we^ 
many as are to be found in the costume? 
/■Iv'ftOC? Itrtll ® ft 
its last autumn exhibition, there can 
be no doubt aboutits being a valuable 
variety worthy of trial by market gar¬ 
deners as well as amateurs. 
COMPLETE FEBTILIZEES. 
Among the most harmful and most 
deeply rooted prejudices under which 
farmei-s labor is that against com¬ 
mercial fertilizers, resulting largely 
from the fact that in former years 
large quantities of fraudulent articles 
were sold to them unawares. But 
thanks to the fertilizer laws, this 
state of affairs exists no longer, so 
that in purchasing commercial fer¬ 
tilizers one may know exactly what 
he gets, as much so—and more ac¬ 
curately even—as in buying hay or 
grain. 
To determine which special kind 
of fertilizer will give the most favor¬ 
able results in a given case however 
is not generally so easy a matter. A 
fertilizer—yard manure included— 
may under certain conditions pro¬ 
duce satisfactory returns, and yet 
there may have been considerable 
waste in its use by having contained 
elements which the land did not need. 
To say the truth I enjoyed the sport 
although it was not very proAtaJ 
could not forbear plantino- aeai 
last spring. There was a “small? 
number of sports this year and the 
progeny seemed inclined to assume 
the shape and appearance of some 
half dozen distinct strains, but as 
there were no very good bearers 
among them I concluded to discard 
all except a few varieties, which I 
retained for future trial. 
H. J. SEniouE. 
Copjrlsbl, 1M>. 
EARLY ARLINGTON CELERY. 
Nevertheless there is danger of imnovoriei, ...ifi - 
ing the land in applying only a single plan'J-' nitroge? 
food element, as all the other elemeLs r^ notably oho f'‘®. ingredients, 
quired by the crop have to be taken up from last will 
he resources of the soil. This indirect a? I ?deS>» ^-'^ct, last 
tion of a fertilizer performs a far more im- ! "1> by future crops. ” 
Dorfeanf; narf. in at_ » 
- — — jijuio im- 
portantpart in fertilization than is gcnerallv 
supposed. •' 
Mr. Charles V. Mapes, who has devoted a ! 
SPOETINB BEANS. 
life time of careful stud^an7 7xte?s“v? dci velf-Tr ^ to raise gar- 
practical obsei-vation to the subject of plant' to sunffiv‘- ^ f ''“n’iiy and 
fertilizers, in treating of this point, says 1? ! market As»oigbboi?,:;;:;l 
a recently published pamphlet on Potatoes •' must r-iiu ' oourso, | thought 1 
“ Any soluble salt or fertilizer, like nitrite Cranlm' ’bn ticultural or .Spoeklml 
of soda, sulphate of anjinonia potash Kni< * ^^^ ^^^‘^****’^■*^**'did piluni-in 
kainit. acid nbn«„i,„T.„ 1 "’nek and clay garden ‘1?,^ s 
kainlt,acid phosphates, plain superphol ^ 
phates, etc., when incorporated with the 
soil, acts as a solvent on all the plant-food in 
the soil, and indirectly supplies the crop to 
the extent of the resources of the land with 
all the remaining elements of plant-food 
which the fertilizer applied ffiils to contain 
have no !ispirations^'fo?!'’i • "conicd to 
not take to the l?s " ? ^ 
few pods. But there wj* J^***duced but 
notable exception, whirr. Olio 
bad plenty of pods wol/ri , 
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FEESH SPEOETS, 
More seeds fail to come up fron 
lieing planted too deep than from at 
other causes combined. 
Prof. G. C. Caldwell thinks then 
is little danger of getting poorer Po 
tatoes in the larger crop udth ashei 
as a fertilizer. 
Growing Lima Beans on stoul 
brush, six to eight feet in height, ii 
preferred to poles by many wholiavi 
tried both ways. 
Have everything in readiness foi 
spring work, but never attempt t( 
work the soil before it is ready for it 
that is before it is dry. 
For bot-beds made after tli< 
fifteenth of March, Peter Hcndeisw 
considers sashes covered with oiled muslu 
preferable to glass. 
Vegetables as a rule will thrive best, otliei 
tilings being equal, ou a naturally drained 
deep, sandy loam with southerly exposure 
Bliubarb and Asparagus may bo forcct 
readily by digging up the roots with agoo« 
sized clump of soil, and placing them 
hot-hed. 
Coal ashes are too valuable to bo dump® 
in the road. On many soils a load of si^j® 
oo.al ashes is as valuable as a load ofsta’* 
manure. 
At this soiison, vogotabli's in 
moro suh joet to decay than at any ® ® | 
and sliould tlieroforo bo looked over 
quoiitly, removing all decaying matter. ^ 
To Icoop Sweet Potatoes in good 
tluiy must ho stored in a dry and woH '®^^ 
lilatcd place with a temporaturo never mW 
than -lO'’ and never liigher than 00°. 
