THE WINTER RHUBARB 



limited bearing and therefore cannot revert so 

 long as it is in-bred. "When crossed with the 

 spring-bearing race, however, the offspring some- 

 times revert to the old habit, as might be expected. 

 As already noted, nothing is gained by such 

 crossing. Nor is there any necessity for the 

 growth even of pure-bred seedlings. Propagation 

 by root-division answers every purpose, and, thus 

 multiplied, the new crimson winter rhubarb, in 

 its perfected varieties, constitutes a fixed race and 

 is a permanent acquisition to the list of garden 

 vegetables. 



— It required only clear- 

 eyed selection and patient 

 watching — the encourage- 

 ment of tendencies in 

 the right direction and 

 the suppression of tenden- 

 cies in the wrong direction 

 — to produce the result. 



