ilO buist's family kitchen gardener. 



progress in their cultivation, within i\e past fifteen years, than 

 this article, and we yet expect to see it cultivated by the hun- 

 dred acres and brought to our market in wagon loads. The 

 following sorts are all deserving of partic^alar attention. 



Tobolsk. — A very early, small, red variety, of excellent fla- 

 vor for an early crop or forcing. It grows in very rich ground 

 to about eighteen inches or two feet long. 



Washington. — A green variety, very much spotted on the 

 footstalks, grows two feet long, and is a second early sort. 



G-iant. — A very large green variety, with round stalks, that 

 will grow four feet long, and nearly the thickness of a man's 

 wrist. It is cultivated in England to an immense extent, as 

 a late variety, to supply the market the whole Summer, 



Mammoth. — This sort was raised by me from the seed of the 

 former. It grows from three to four feet long, with stalks of 

 great thickness, of a flat shape. It has taken the prize as the 

 best Rhubarb, at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's 

 meetings, the past three years. It is of excellent flavor. 



Mijaifs Victoria. — This is a red variety, of great excellence 

 and richly flavored, grows very strong, equal to the Giant, and 

 much earlier than that variety ; is richly deserving of exten- 

 sive culture. 



Large Early Red. — A seedling, by me, from the Victoria. 

 It is even larger than its parent, comes full eight days earlier, 

 and will prove the best Early Rhubarb we have yet had brought 

 to our notice. The stalks are three feet long, and are quite 

 fit for use before the leaf begins to expand. . It is richly fla- 

 vored. It may be observed that the red stalked sorts are gen* 

 erally earlier than those with green stems. 



Rheum pahiatum, or Palmated-leaved Rhubarb, is the vari- 

 ety that is cultivated in China and Tartary for its roots, and 

 in some countries another species, the U/idulatum, is grown for 

 the same purpose. There is no doubt that all the other vari- 

 eties possess the same medicinal properties when they attain, 

 sufficient age, which is allowed to b^ seven years. 



