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any other vegetable. "We give our patch a heavy 

 dressing of manure every Spring, and fork it under ; 

 two hoeings through the season v?ill keep down the 

 ■weeds. The cost of keeping an acre in good order 

 will average about sixty dollars a year. Before plant- 

 ing, the ground should be ploughed and sub-soiled 

 thoroughly, and, if necessary, drained. Then plenty 

 of well-rotted niamire should be turned under — sixty 

 to seventy two-horse loads to the acre : the greater 

 the quantity of manure used, the larger and finer 

 will the Rhubarb grow. 



The roots should be set four feet apart each way^ 

 using a spade and line, so as to make the rowa 

 straight and at regular distances. The plants should 

 be divisions of old roots of the different kinds want- 

 ed. Cahoon's Seedling is the only kind that we 

 know that will produce itself from seeds ; the other 

 well-known sorts will give a dozen varieties, and 

 therefore they cannot be relied upon. 



It makes little or no difference whether the roots 

 are set out in the Spring or Fall^the condition of 

 the ground is more important than the time of plant- 

 ing. It is well, however, when the roots have been 

 in place for eight or nine years to take them up and 

 divide them ; this can be done in August. If the 

 roots are carefully separated, part of a crop can be 

 gathered the following year, and a full one the sec- 

 ond year. 



By placing a bottomless barrel over a crown in 

 March, and putting some long manure on the out- 

 side. Rhubarb can be brought forward. Gardeners 

 often force it by placing the roots vinder the tables in 



