THE WINTER RHUBARB 



MAKING A CROP FOR A HIGH- 

 PRICED MARKET 



MORE than one enthusiast has declared 

 that the most important garden vege- 

 table that has been introduced to the 

 world in the past half century is the giant crimson 

 winter rhubarb. 



This no doubt is an overestimate, if for no 

 other reason than that it overlooks the Burbank 

 potato or the thornless blackberries or the new 

 series of giant shipping plums. Still, there is no 

 question that my winter rhubarb has proved to be 

 of great economic importance. Although intro- 

 duced quite recently, it has already made its way 

 to all quarters of the globe, and has proved of 

 unusual value in regions where no other rhubarb 

 had hitherto been, or could be grown. 



At the Cape of Good Hope, for example, 

 efforts to grow rhubarb had been made for two 

 hundred years at least, and always without suc- f 

 cess ; but the new variety proves an especially sat- 



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