WINTER RHUBARB 241 



Qualities of the New Rhubarb 



Not only does the improved Winter Rhubarb 

 produce stalks at all seasons of the year, but these 

 stalks are of such quality as to give this rhubarb 

 a place apart among garden vegetables. 



The stalks have the pleasant taste of berries, 

 and they altogether lack the tough, stringy, 

 strong quality of the ordinary rhubarb. 



Meantime the stalks are as large as can be con- 

 veniently handled and shipped, being two or 

 even three feet in length, and from an inch to an 

 inch and a half in thickness. The beautiful 

 crimson color of the stalks adds also, greatly, 

 to their attractiveness. 



An important quality of the improved Winter 

 Rhubarb is that a plantation can be obtained 

 from a few plants in a fraction of the time re- 

 quired to stock it from older varieties. It is only 

 necessary to dig up the plants in the fall, Sep- 

 tember being the best month, dividing them with 

 a sharp knife, cutting them into the smallest 

 possible bits which have even a single bud and 

 a fragment of a root. 



Each fragment will make a big, hardy, and 

 productive plant in a twelvemonth ; and it often 

 happens that the smallest fragments will pro- 

 duce the largest plants. 



