QUERIES, ANSWERS, REMARKS, ETC. 
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Rhubarb Plants. —My Rhubarb bed of green Giant and scarlet Goliah, was 
last year the admiration of this district, near Heney; many of the leaves mea¬ 
suring four feet in length, and the stems between five and six inches in circum¬ 
ference; the latter too, retaining their delicate pulp-like texture, where dressed 
throughout the summer and far into October. 
This year, however, almost all the roots appear to have changed their charac¬ 
ter; they have thrown up a forest of tiny stalks, not thicker than my little 
finger, which possess, in addition to the above ill quality, that of being tough 
and stringy, or rather wirg, my tarts having more resembled hay than rhubarb. 
Do you suppose, gentlemen, that I have injured my roots, by having continued 
to cook them through the last summer ? 
I have but slender abilities in Horticultural matters, and hope for your indul¬ 
gence, and the favour of a reply. Rhea. 
Erythrina Christa Galli. —Having had the Erythrina Christa Galli in 
my possession nearly four years, and with every advantage which the stove and 
green house afford, not having made, amidst its luxuriance, the smallest ap¬ 
proach to bloom; I should feel much obliged, to be made acquainted through 
the medium of the Horticultural Register, of the best method that may encourage 
some prospect of success in this respect. A Florist. 
Rhubarb Plants. —In answer to the enquiry of your correspondent T. 
(Hort. Reg. page 666,) I have to observe, that it is, I believe, an ascertained fact, 
that allowing plants to seed has an exhausting effect, as well upon the plants 
themselves, as upon the soil they grow in. Some, which if prevented from seed¬ 
ing, would prove perennial, uniformly die the following winter, if allowed to 
seed. Others, if raised too late to blossom the year in which they are sown, are 
well known to produce more vigorous plants, and consequently finer flowers, the 
year following. 
Applying this principle to my Rhubarb, I remove its blossom buds in their 
earliest infancy, except when I wish to perfect a few of its seeds : this, however, 
I have nearly attempted, as like the potatoe, it is much more speedily propaga¬ 
ted through the medium of its roots, than by sowing the seed. 
Whenever I have allowed a Rhubarb plant to ripen its seed, I have found it 
suffer in the vigour of its leaves, not only during the year of its flowering, but 
on the following year also. Edwd. Be van. 
Fern / Side, Aug. 4th, 1832. 
Glycine Sinensis, as a Frontispiece for the Volume. —As the first 
Volume of the Horticultural Register will close next December, I beg to suggest, 
than an Engraving conveying the representation of some beautiful flower, be¬ 
longing to a plant of easy cultivation, may accompany the number of that 
month, for the particular purpose of being bound up, as the frontispiece to the 
work : and should this suggestion be approved of, I beg to name the perennial 
climber, the Glycine Sinensis, as having great claim from its elegantly formed 
clusters of beautiful bright-blue flowers to this distinction : but as some of your 
readers may give a preference to other flowers, and as the decision may require 
some consideration from yourselves, I have placed the hint in train, while De¬ 
cember is still at some distance, that there may be ample time for that purpose 
accordingly. A Subscriber. 
