Excerpt from Rhubarb or Pie Plant Culture the Best Varieties
Preface; The Origin of Rhubarb; Selecting the Soil; Preparing the Soil; Setting Out the Roots; Manure and How to Apply it; Care of the Young Bed; Tending in the Fall; Tending in the Spring; Preparing and Marketing the Crop; Trimming the Roots as they Grow Larger; Forcing Rhubarb; My Plan of Forcing Rhubarb in Greenhouses; Forcing Rhubarb in Hot Beds; The Varieties; How Rhubarb Pays, Compared with Certain Crops; Digging and Separating Roots for Setting out New Beds; Packing the Roots for Shipping; Essential Points in the Production of Good Rhubarb; Rhubarb Out West; Receipts for the Uses of Rhubarb; Pie Plant Wine; Rhubarb Tart; Rhubarb Pie; Canning Rhubarb; Rhubarb Jelly; Rhubarb Sauce; Rhubarb Jam; Reliable Seedsmen; Time Required for Vegetable Seeds to Germinate; Quantity of Seed Gardeners Generally Sow to an Acre; Standard Weights of Various Articles; Required Number of Trees, Plants, etc., to Set an Acre; Closing Remarks; Hot Water Boilers; Seed Potatoes; Rhubarb Roots; Ventilating Apparatus; Potato Bug Sprinkler
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