189 
1885. 
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From the desoriptlo,, fyivo,, i„ oufc.,io.,.„„„ ^ give tlicir leaves 
CnSriiST;,'"'' 
Ui a tlesl^o.ed for fall „He .slie.il,] be 
Haiikiii^r in about 
‘auuHlri^ is 
oitoii 
aoeumto uiea about the robiUTO sixes i' 
(IKl-oreut varieties of Sweet (!on,' '-n, 
oompanyinf? illustnitiou, from fl„.' 7 
of Messrs. Peter 1 huulerso,/ & oi,""''' 
Couiul a material help in tliis rof^anl 
an 
tile 
ac- 
will be 
OELERY &R0Wllfa 
AVecauuotboastoraso.o„a;nU;nrala,lvan- 
tagealortbesrowinn-ot u.is crop as tbZ. 
enjoyed by t.he Michigan growers, esp'eeiallj- 
those about Kalama/.oo, yet nevertheless no 
s.nall amount of Celery is g.-own round about 
this city (Quincy, Illinois). The growers 
are now preparing to transplant (he seed 
lings. As tlio raising of tlie seedlings is 
quite troublesome, some of our most exten¬ 
sive growers buy all tlieir plants. As tliey 
can buy of near nciglibors, titey get tlie 
plants at a reasonable price, and one wliieli 
probably justllios them in buying plants in¬ 
stead of rais- 
ing them 
fro m t li e 
seed. 
Manure i s 
used liberallj’' 
—altliough 
the land is 
n a t u r a 11 jy 
veiy fertile— 
and well in¬ 
corporated in 
the soil, 
which is thor¬ 
oughly fined. 
The ground is 
left level, and 
the plants are 
put out on tile 
surface, as 
Cabbages, 
etc., are 
planted. For 
Celery for fail 
use the plants 
are put six 
inches apart 
in rows four 
feet apart; 
for winter 
Celery the 
r 0 w s a r e 
made only two or thi’ee feet apart, in 
transplanting, it is importaiit to get tlie 
plant set to just the deptli of tlie roots, 
also, to firm the ground about tnem-- 
but this latter applies to all plants., Tins 
work is done from July 1st to -August 
15th. The evening is the best time for 
transplanting, and if there has just been a 
copious shower it is all the bettei oi le 
plant but not so pleasant for the p an ei. b 
H there has not been a showei the p an' 
are given a copious watering, and buta veiy 
small proportion fail to continue giow i. 
'The cultivation is easy—to keep the 
elear of weeds is all that is requiie • 
hoes are used, any weeds growing ^ 
the hoes will not reach them being 
by the hand hoe or by pulling- ‘te,,,. 
js thus kept up till about the.flrs o 1 
her, when “handling” begins. jg 
(Ivawn to the row from each side , 
oommonly used for this work— anc 1 
banked, 
two week.s after 
completcd-say October first. 
' sod iKitween the i-ows is dug up and 
banked IIP solidly ag.-dnst tlie rows of Cel¬ 
ery, lieing compacted in its place by tlie 
lack of the spade. In four weeks it is 
blanched ready for use. If left in tlie ground 
till late tlie bank is made stronger, and 
loot-thick layer of litter is i 
against it. 
J'or winter-keeping our growers utilize all 
their spare cellar space. The Celery is taken 
from the ground from the last of October to 
the last of Xovemlier—to give asiieeessioii— 
and idaced in narrow boxes not quite so 
deeii as the Celery is high. Hand or rich 
soil to the deiiLli of two or tliree inches is 
placed in the box and the Celery is jiacked 
a 
packed 
spade blade are dug as deep as the Celery is 
high. In the trenches the Celery is packed 
compactly, standing upriglit, as in the boxes 
or compartments in the cellar. As the tem¬ 
perature lowers, litter is placed over the 
Celery, the litter being increased as the 
weather grows severer. A covering of 
litter eight to ten inches tliick. will protect 
tlie Celery from any ordinary weather. Some 
place a very light covering of earth over tlie 
litter. As thus grown and blanclied our 
gardeners find Celery one of their most prof¬ 
itable crops. Golden Dwarf and Sandring¬ 
ham are the two varieties nio.stly grown 
here. .John M. Stahl. 
FRESH SPROUTS. 
'I'lie average yield for three years of whole 
Potatoes jdanted at the Ohio Experiment 
.Station was 24C bushels per acre, that from 
single eye pieces 130 buslieLs per acre. 
To prevent the .splitting or bursting of Cab¬ 
bages, .J..J. H 
Gregory rec¬ 
ommends to 
go frequently 
over the 
ground and 
start eve r y 
Cabbage that 
appears to be 
about to ina- 
ture, by push- 
mg tlieiu over 
side w a y s. 
Heads thus 
start e d are 
said to gi-ow 
to double the 
size they liad 
a 11 a i u e d 
when about 
to burst. 
VARIETIES Or SWEET CORN. 
upriglit on tins sand or soil, tlie roots being 
set on it but none of it allowed between the 
stalks. Tlie cellar is kept cool if tlie weatli- 
cr is warm, as it very frequently is when 
the Celery is first boxed. It is ready for use 
early in tlie succeediug year—say from Jan¬ 
uary first to April first. Some set the Celery 
down ou tlie eartlicu floor of the cellar, plac- 
ino- it in narrow compartments made byput- 
“ edge, a few indies apart, boards 
about as wide as tlie Celery is liigh. Some 
.rrowers liave “Celery houses'’-low houses 
muiked up around tlie sides witli earth and 
a floor of eartli-tlie bottom of an excava¬ 
tion two feet deep-divided into narrow coni- 
D-irtments by boards on edge; but so fai 
these houses have blanched the Celery only 
^'iSsTwho have not the Celery houses 
JnZyhentUen- cellars 'are Ailed. High 
^ iierfectly drained, is selected. 
Snelies the width of a narrow shovel or 
Cabbage 
maggots are 
ver.v numer¬ 
ous and de¬ 
structive i 11 
many locali¬ 
ties. Of the 
I ill several reme¬ 
dies tided .at 
theNewYork 
Experiment Station, the kerosene emulsion, 
prepared as follows, has been found most ef¬ 
fective. One pound of common soap is 
boiled iu four quarts of warm water; when 
all is dissolved and while the suds are boil¬ 
ing they are removed from the Are. Oue 
quart of kerosene oil is then added and thor¬ 
oughly mixed by stirring vigorously until 
the mixture is cold. One pint of this emul¬ 
sion is dissolved in ten gallons of hot water 
and applied to the roots of the plants. 
Melons do not require frequent change of 
laud. The veteran Marshall P. dVilder says 
that lie has grown ^Melons on the same land 
for ten years; the ground has a south aspect. 
He prepares a compost of manure, soil and 
guano, which he spreads on the land in .ad¬ 
dition to manuring in the hills. Surf.aee 
manuring he considers very important. He has 
no trouble with insects, as he gets up in the 
morning before they do. 
