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On the Cultivation of Rhubarb. 
juices be thrown olF at the upper side of the deaders, and reduce them 
again when thought fit, as directed for the foregoing. 
The right hand sides of a a, figure 84, is represented full trained, 
and the original branches only shown in effigy. The left hand side 
represents them with the inverse-graftings completing their destina- 
tionj^ and the original shoots retained till that time, if thought judicious, 
to keep up a supply of fruit, if they be worth the while to keep them 
nailed, and retarding the young wood. In some cases it might be 
discreet, but bad judgment in most; better to cut them out, as they 
interrupt and shade the young pendant shoots. 
Probably no better plan could be devised to bring seedling fruits 
early into bearing than by the inverse method of grafting, and keeping 
the shoots trained downward, as I recommend. 
Fig. 85 represents a tree in two stages of 
its growth: the 1 st, (a) in the autumn, after 
it has made its second summer’s pendant 
shoot; and the 2nd (i) is the representation 
of one after completing its pendant shoot and 
firuit spurs, and in a state to-produce a crop 
of fruit, either upon a pillar, a buttress, &c. 
or an improvement upon the French me¬ 
thod of training ‘‘cn quenouille’' so much 
recommended as open garden standards : but the fructiferousness of 
their method can only remain for a few years upon a free stock, which 
I have often proved; nor will it succeed many years fruitful upon 
dwarf ones while the roots are going progressively on. 
John Mearns. 
Palace Gardens^ J-Vells, Dec. 19, 1831. 
Article II .—On the Cultivation of Rhubarb. By Dr. 
Bevan, FeiTy Side, near Cannarthen. 
I HAVE for a great many years cultivated Rhubarb in such a way as to 
excite the admiration of all who have witnessed its luxuriance. The 
long continued abundance of stalks which it affords have induced 
many persons to cultivate it in the same manner as myself. 
Rhubarb requires, for the perfection of its growth, as rich a bed as 
Asparagus. The practice I adopt, is to appropriate a square yard 
of soil to each plant,—to remove a cubic yard of earth,—to fill up 
the pit thus made with well-rotted stable manure, treading it closely 
