LUTHER BLRBAXK 



mortgage lifter." More than one substantial 

 fortune has been made by growing it here in 

 California and shipping it to the eastern States 

 during the holiday season when fruits and green 

 vegetables are relatively scarce. 



It retains, as to general appearance, the aspect 

 of a greatly enlarged stalk of the familiar rhubarb 

 or pieplant of the eastern vegetable garden. But 

 the stalks are of a characteristic rich crimson 

 color, and as brought to the table the sauce made 

 from them is not onlj' delicious in flavor, sug- 

 gesting the strawberry and raspberry, but it is 

 quite devoid of the stringiness or fiber-like texture 

 and the disagreeable "ground taste" of the 

 ordinary pieplant. 



Many people who have hitherto regarded pie- 

 plant as a plebeian dish to be avoided are 

 enthusiastic in the praise of the new product. 



The crimson winter rhubarb produces not 

 only far larger stalks than the old New^ Zealand 

 prototype, but at least ten times as many of them 

 to each plant. The stalks begin to appear in great 

 abundance early in September and continue to 

 produce a product of unvarying quality for eight 

 to twelve months together — in California through- 

 out the entire year — instead of for a few weeks 

 in the spring. So the popularity of the winter 

 rhubarb from the standpoint of the grower as well 



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