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Show CELERY AS DUCK FOOD Winter Buds and Root Stocks Are Relished Best Plant la Wholly Submerged With Long, Flexible, RIbbon-LIke Leavca of Light Translucent Green Flowera Are Peculiar. (By W. 1 M'ATEE.) The names wild celery and canvas-Lack canvas-Lack duck have been closely associated associat-ed In the annals of American sport To a certain extent thla association is justified, since the canvas back ob tains about one-fourth of Its food from thla plant a greater proportion than any other duck. However, the asaer-tlon asaer-tlon that the flavor of the canvasback Is superior to that of any other duck and that It depends on a diet of wild celery la not proved, to aay the least. The acaupa or bluebllla and the redhead red-head also are very fond of wild celery, cel-ery, and are fully aa capable of getting get-ting tbe delicious buds aa the canvas back. Several other ducks get more or less of thla food, tbe writer finding that even tbe scoters on a northern lake In fall lived almost exclusively on it for a time. All parte of tbe plant are eaten by ducka but the tender winter buda and root stocks are relished rel-ished best. Wild celery buds can usu Wild Celery. ally be obtained by tbe diving ducka, such aa the bluebllla, redheads, canvasback can-vasback and scoters. Tbe non-diving species, aa tbe mallard, black duck, baldpate and the geese get an occasional occa-sional bud, but more often they feed upon the leavea. Wild celery ia a' wholly submerged plant with long, flexible, ribbon-like leaves of light translucent green and of practically tbe aame width (anywhere (any-where from one-fourth to three-fourtha three-fourtha of an Inch, from root to tip, Tbls plant may be distinguished from tbe eelgrass, which lives in brackish or aalt water, by tbe fact that Its leaves grow in bundles from tbe root stock, while those of eelgrass arise singly and alternate on opposite aides of the stem. The flowers of wild celery are peculiar. pecu-liar. Tbe atamlnate flowers attached at the base of tbe plants shed pollen, which floats on the surface of the water wa-ter and fertilizes the plHtlllate flower. Tbe latter la attached to a long slender, slen-der, round stem, which contracts Into In-to a spiral, drawing the flower under the water after fertilization. The seed pod Into which the pollenUed flower develops la straight or curved, a little slenderer than a common lead pencil and from 3 to 6 Inchea long. It contains embedded In a clear Jelly. , small dark aeeds, In number about 60 to the inch. No such pod Is borne by any other fresh water plant |