Archive image from page 304 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofam01bail Year: 1900 side the of the beds (Fig. 395). This method is known 'New (lelery Culture,'or Niven's method. Blanching. —When the weather is warm in summer celery often blanches in two weeks after boards are set up beside the
Archive image from page 304 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofam01bail Year: 1900 side the of the beds (Fig. 395). This method is known 'New (lelery Culture,'or Niven's method. Blanching. —When the weather is warm in summer celery often blanches in two weeks after boards are set up beside the rows, but later in the fall it takes three or four weeks, and the winter varieties are often banked with earth considerably longer than this and then placed in celery pits, where the blanching process continues. Hemlock boards an inch thick, a foot wide and 12 feet long, are largely used for blanching summer celery. These are placed on edge beside the rows and drawn nearly together at the top, where they are held by small wooden cleats. When thus placed the boards enclose the entire plants, with the exception of ends of scatter- ing leaves, which project above them. In market gar- dens these boards are moved from one field to another after the crops mature, and kept in constant use from the middle of June until late in November. When freez- ing weather is expected, the remaining plants of the early varieties are lifted and set in beds in the field, where they are enclosed on the sides and covered as closely as circumstances may require with the boards. Late celery is blanched mainly by banking with earth, the earth being thrown up against the plants at two or three different times; first, the base of the bank is thrown up about one foot high, the leaves being held together during the operation to prevent the .soil from filling in between the stalks. The top of this bank is left broad and dishing so that the plants can be watered. Two or three weeks later the bank is raised 8
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