The plants are thus made stocky. In our latitude I try
to set out celery, whether raised or bought, between the twenty-
fifth of June and the fifteenth of July. This latitude enables us
to avoid a spell of hot, dry weather.
There are two distinct classes of celery--the tall-growing sorts,
and the dwarf varieties. A few years ago the former class was
grown generally; trenches were dug, and their bottoms well
enriched to receive the plants. Now the dwarf kinds are proving
their superiority, by yielding a larger amount of crisp, tender
heart than is found between long coarse stalks of the tall sorts.
Dwarf celery requires less labor also, for it can be set on the
surface and much closer together, the rows three feet apart, and
the plants six inches in the row. Dig all the ground thoroughly,
then, beginning on one side of the plot, stretch a line along it,
and fork under a foot-wide strip of three or four inches of
compost, not raw manure. By this course the soil where the row is
to be is made very rich and mellow. Set out the plants at once
while the ground is fresh and moist. If the row is ten feet long,
you will want twenty plants; if fifteen, thirty plants; or two
plants to every foot of row. Having set out one row, move the line
forward three feet, and prepare and set out another row in
precisely the same manner.
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