WINTER RHUBARB 



AND OTHER 

 INTERESTING EXOTICS 



THE 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 breeding 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 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, I continued my experiments in 

 selective breeding as well as in hybridization. The 



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