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necessary to recall that their immediate ancestors 

 came from another hemisphere, and that traits 

 of their latent heritage from remote ancestors 

 both of tropical and subarctic habit were 

 brought to the surface under influence of the 

 new conditions of environment to which they 

 were transplanted; and the further influence of 

 new crosses and of constant selection through 

 many generations. 



All in all, the new Giant Crimson Winter 

 Rhubarb is a plant that presents points of in- 

 terest for the student of heredity and for the 

 practical plant developer no less than for the 

 practical horticulturist. And for the latter — 

 whose interests, of course, are those of the public 

 at large — the new rhubarb has been declared to 

 be "the most valuable vegetable production of 

 the century." 



The merit of that characterization we need not 

 discuss; but no one who has seen the new Giant 

 Rhubarb is likely to dispute that it is a plant of 

 altogether exceptional interest. 



Some Esculents and an Anomalous 

 Solanum 



The rhubarb is one of the few plants in which 

 the edible portion, for which the vegetable is 

 prized, consists of the leafstalks. 



