. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. -^ J\)<c JKitcber) ferard^r). ^5— **.. <" THE NEW CELERY CULTURE. The R. N. Y. says : For the benefit of newer readers, we will briefly restate the main features of what is called the " New Celery ; The soil is well enriched and prepared with great care, being made as fine and open as tools can make it. It is then marked off in rows seven inches apart each way. The plants, started as usual from seed, are set out in the cross marks seven inches apart all over the field. They are culti- v
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. -^ J\)<c JKitcber) ferard^r). ^5— **.. <" THE NEW CELERY CULTURE. The R. N. Y. says : For the benefit of newer readers, we will briefly restate the main features of what is called the " New Celery ; The soil is well enriched and prepared with great care, being made as fine and open as tools can make it. It is then marked off in rows seven inches apart each way. The plants, started as usual from seed, are set out in the cross marks seven inches apart all over the field. They are culti- vated with the wheel hoe and hand tools as long as possible, and irri- gated or watered so that the soil never becomes very dry. Mr. Beckwith of the Delaware Agricultural Experimental Station, has tried the new plan and says : We are so well pleased with this method that we shall try it again the coming season, and shall set the plants seven inches apart each way, and make the bed very much wider, as we think by so do- ing the plants will blanch better. The above is from a photograph of the celery taken while growing in the garden. The five rows to the right show that planted after the Niven method, while at the left is a row of White Plume blanching by means of boards on each side instead of Summer Pruning- of Gooseberries and Currants.—Of these there are two kinds requirihg notice, viz., Gooseberries and Currants, of the latter only red and white varieties, and of the first-named only those trained to walls. Any- one who has not hitherto practised summer pruning as here advocated for Cur- rants and Gooseberries would, I feel sure, after a first trial adopt the plan. The young shoots are cut back about the second or third week in June to within four or five leaves of their base, and it only remains to be said that you will be rewarded by larger fruit and more of it than would be the case if they were treated only to the customary winter pruning.—H. G. H. in Garden
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