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RED HYBRID RHUBARB. 
tion every sowing. One method'is when the plants have acquired 
five or six leaves to take up the best curled, shorten their roots to 
three or four inches long, and plant them on a bed eight or nine 
inches apart. In the autumn, make a selection from them, and 
transplant for seed. When they throw up seed stems, and it is not 
intended to allow them to seed, cut the whole row off close to the 
ground, and it will shoot up stocks, and in a regular close growth. 
To preserve it for seasoning, gather it on a dry day, put it in a tin 
roasting screen, and place it close to a large fire, till it becomes brit¬ 
tle ; then rub it fine, and put it in glass bottles for use. 
Hamburgh Parsley is chiefly grown for its carrot-shaped roots, 
which is drawn in autumn and winter for table ; it may be sown on 
any dry mould, providing it be deep and not too rich. Thin it to 
nine inches apart. On the approach of frost, it may be taken up, 
and like carrots preserved in sand. 
ARTICLE II. 
OBSERVATIONS ON WATSON’S BEARDED RED HYBRID RHUBARB. 
BY MR. HENRY DYSON. 
In venturing to affix a descriptive name to a valuable and highly es¬ 
teemed culinary plant, but chiefly in presuming to call the attention 
of horticulturists to a new and decidedly superior hybrid Rhubarb, 
I claim their indulgence, from a conviction of my inability to do jus¬ 
tice to the subject. Though I have applied the appellation “ new 
hybrid,” it is not strictly correct, since the plant has been known to 
a few individuals for forty years; but still its excellence is, I believe, 
almost wholly unknown beyond the confines of Yorkshire or its im¬ 
mediate borders. The term neic is applied to it in consequence of 
this being, from what I can learn, the first public notice of it that 
has appeared. 
The plant was originally raised by a Mr. Watson, either a physi¬ 
cian or surgeon, at Pickering, in Yorkshire, about the year 1790. 
His attention was intuitively attracted to one particular plant, on a 
bed of seedlings, by its striking singularity, and its essential differ¬ 
ence of conformation, as contrasted with every other plant on the 
border. It was planted out separately, and nurtured with more than 
common care. During the succeeding spring, if he felt gratified by 
its appearance a few weeks earlier than its compeers, lie was not less 
