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RHUBARB, AS GROWN FROM SEEDS 



TF THERE is one vegetable that may be considered 

 -- more indifferent about the soil in which it grows than 

 all the rest, it is rhubarb. It literally grows well in any 

 soil excepting the strong alkali soils of the West. A 

 deep, rich, sandy loam is most ideally adapted to strong 

 development of the plants which do best if heavily mulched 

 with manure in the fall which should be dug into the soil 

 around the plants in the spring. 



Seeds may be sown in rows, eighteen inches apart, 

 covered one-quarter to one-half inch deep, as early 

 in the spring as the soil can be put in condition. Seed- 

 lings generally appear three weeks after sowing and an- 

 other four weeks after that they should be thinned 

 out to stand eight or ten inches apart in the row. The 

 average packet of seeds will provide from 25 to 100 plants. 



The following fall the roots should be lifted and trans- 

 planted into permanent beds, two feet apart in the rows, 

 allowing three feet of space between the rows. 



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