LUTHER BURBANK 



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 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 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 required to 

 stock it from older varieties. It is only necessary 

 to dig up the plants in the fall, September 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 twelve month; and it often 

 happens that the smallest fragments will produce 

 the largest plants. 



Another way to propagate the plant, if you do 

 not wish to injure the old plantation, is to dig 

 away the earth around the plant and cut out little 

 V-shaped pieces of the roots, one or two inches 

 long, vr'th a sharp knife, including a bud. Each 



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