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Groceries (CELERY stalks should be white)

CELERY stalks should be white, solid and clean. Celery begins in August, but it is better and sweeter after frost.

EGG-PLANT should be firm but not ripe. The large purple oval-shaped kind, is best.

MUSHROOMS are dangerous things for the inexperienced to buy, and should be let alone.

PEASE should be bought in pods and should feel cool and dry. If pods are rusty or spotted, they are too old to be good.

POTATOES. Select those of medium size, smooth, with small eyes. To test, cut off a piece of the large end; if spotted, they are unsound. In the spring, when potatoes are beginning to sprout, place a basket of them in a tub, pour boiling water over them; in a moment or two take out and place in sun to dry (on the grass is a good place), and then return to cellar. If they have sprouted too much it is best to first rub them off.