no LUTHER BLRBAXK 



This one tnit is fixed* though sonv >'' *f>" '>ti>'^» 

 qualities of the pimnt are still vari. 



Usiag the new tenninology we may §^i 

 tlie tendency to winter-bearing is a unit character 

 that is latent or recessive, and that the winter 

 rhubarb has no factors of the opposite trait of 

 limited bearing and therefore cannot revert so 

 long at it is inbred. When crossed with the 

 spring-bearing race, however, the offspring some- 

 times revert to the old habit, as might he 

 expected. 



As already noted, nothing so far has been 

 gained by such crossing. Nor is there any neces- 

 sity* for the growth even of pure-bred seedlings. 

 Propagation by root division answers every pur- 

 pose and, thus multiplied, the new crimson 

 winter rhubarb, in its perfected varieties, con- 

 stitutes a fixed race and is a permanent acquisi- 

 sition to the list of garden v^petables. 



// required only dear-eyed telcc- 

 Hon and patient watching — the en- 

 courngcmcnt of tendencies in the 

 right direction and the euppres- 

 don of tendenciee in the torong 

 direction — to produce the result. 



