Archive image from page 19 of Descriptive catalogue of field, garden. Descriptive catalogue of field, garden and flower seeds descriptivecatal1879more Year: 1879 16 JOSEPH HARRIS, MORETOl FARM, ROCHESTER, N. Y. CELERY. For early crop, sow a few rows in the hot- bed, or in a box or flower pots in the house. When the plants are an inch or so high, trans- plant to give them more room, either into another hot-bed or into the open ground. For the main crop, select a light, warm soil, on a sunny border sheltered from the wind. It cannot be too rich. A good plan is, not to spade the soil and thus tu
Archive image from page 19 of Descriptive catalogue of field, garden. Descriptive catalogue of field, garden and flower seeds descriptivecatal1879more Year: 1879 16 JOSEPH HARRIS, MORETOl FARM, ROCHESTER, N. Y. CELERY. For early crop, sow a few rows in the hot- bed, or in a box or flower pots in the house. When the plants are an inch or so high, trans- plant to give them more room, either into another hot-bed or into the open ground. For the main crop, select a light, warm soil, on a sunny border sheltered from the wind. It cannot be too rich. A good plan is, not to spade the soil and thus turn up the cold subsoil, but to hoe and rake till the surface is fine, and if you have plenty of leaf-mould spread it on the border two or three inches thick and hoe it into the fine mellow soil. Then sow the seed in rows five or six inches apart, or wide enough to admit the use of a narrow hoe. Never sow broadcast, as the seeds are slow in germinating, and the plants will stand a good chance of being smoothered by the weeds. Sow as early as the frost is out of the ground. CELERY—BOSTON MARKET. Set out the young plants into rows 15 inches apart and two inches apart in the row. The great point is to get good, strong, stocky plants. I usually plant celery where we have had early peas. But if the land had been plowed and kept free from weeds with no crop on it, it would be more moist and thus better for the celery. But a crop of early potatoes or early peas will be a better preparation for celery than a rank crop of weeds. Plow the ground deep and well, and work it thoroughly with the harrow and cultivator. I then plow deep, double furrows, four feet apart, and put in a liberal dressing of well-rot- ted, moist manure, say from an old hot bed. Work thi> thoroughly into the soil in the trenches or furrows and cover it three or four inches deep with rich surface soil. Harrow or rake or roll until the surface is smooth and fine. The great point is to keep in the moisture. The p
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