Gardening for profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden . moist and cool atmosphere es-sential to the growth of Celery. Then we begin the earth-ing up, necessary for blanching or whitening that whichis wanted for use during the months of September, Octo-ber, and November. The first operation is that of hand-ling, as we term it, that is, after the soil has been drawnup against the plant with the hoe, it is further drawn closearound each plant by the hand, firm enough to keep theleaves in an upright position and prevent them fromspreading, which will leave the
Gardening for profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden . moist and cool atmosphere es-sential to the growth of Celery. Then we begin the earth-ing up, necessary for blanching or whitening that whichis wanted for use during the months of September, Octo-ber, and November. The first operation is that of hand-ling, as we term it, that is, after the soil has been drawnup against the plant with the hoe, it is further drawn closearound each plant by the hand, firm enough to keep theleaves in an upright position and prevent them fromspreading, which will leave them as shown in fig. 41. 156 GARDENING FOK PROFIT. This being done, more soil is drawn against the row, (eitherby the plow or hoe, as circumstances require), so as tokeep the plant in this upright position. , The blanchingj)i*ocess must, however, be finished by the spade, which isdone by digging the soil from between the rows andbanking it up clear to the top on each side of the row ofCelery, as in fig. 42 Three feet is ample distance be-tween the dwarf varieties, but when Seymours Superb,. Fi°\ 42.—CELERY EARTHED UP. Giant, or other large sorts are used, the width betweenthe rows must be at least 4\ or 5 feet, which entails muchmore labor and loss of ground. For the past eight yearsI have grown none but the dwarf varieties, and have savedin consequence at least one-half in labor, and one-third inground, while the average price per root in market hasbeen always equal and occasionally higher than for thetall growing sorts. My neighbors around me have at last got their eyesopened to the v^lue of the dwarf sorts, and I think thata few years more will suffice to throw the large and coarse- VEGETABLES CELERY. 157 flavored sorts, such as Seymours Superb, and Giant,out of our markets. The preparation of the soil and planting of Celery forwinter use, is the same in all repects, except that, what isintended for winter need never be banked up with thespade. It merely requires to be put
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