WINTER RHUBARB AND 



OTHER INTERESTING 



EXOTICS 



£Fhe Possibilities When Plants Are 

 Brought from the Tropics 



THE story of the development of the 

 Winter Rhubarb was told in an earlier 

 chapter. It will be recalled that the plant 

 came to me from New Zealand, and that in its 

 original form it had a small and inconspicuous 

 stalk and was of slight commercial value. It 

 will further be recalled that by selective breed- 

 ing I developed the stalk until it was of large 

 size and of exceptional succulence. 



Meantime, the changed conditions of another 

 hemisphere, with the transposition of seasons, 

 disturbed the habit of bearing of the plant in 

 such a way that it ultimately, by careful selec- 

 tion, became practically a perpetual bearer, its 

 time of greatest productivity, however, being 

 the winter season, After the Winter Rhubarb 

 had been developed and put upon the market, 



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