The Winter Rhubarb 



Making a Crop 

 For a High-Priced Market 



MORE than one enthusiast has declared 

 that the most important garden vege- 

 table that has been introduced to the 

 world in the past half century is the giant winter 

 rhubarb. 



This no doubt is an over estimate, if for no 

 other reason than that it overlooks the Burbank 

 potato. Still, there is no question that my winter 

 rhubarb -has proved to be of very great economic 

 importance. Although introduced quite recently, 

 it has already made its way to all quarters of the 

 globe, and it has proved of unusual value in 

 regions where no other rhubarb had hitherto been, 

 or could be grown. 



At the Cape of Good Hope, for example, 

 efforts to grow rhubarb had been made for a 

 century at least, and always without success; but 

 the new variety proves an especially satisfactory 



[Volume II — Chapter VI] 



