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Show RHUBARB FOR WINTER. Take Some of the Roots for Forcing In the Cellar: It Is now tlmo to make planting plnns for tho fall nnd winter. If you havo n cellar with n dirt lloor nnd havo rhubarb plants which havo supplied yon In tho spring lro Is n plan by which they can be mndo to furnish u crop of tender shoots In the wlntor, when tho pies nnd sauce are most welcome. llnpld growth Is essential to insuro tenderness of tho rhubarb. Tho very best can bo raised In tho winter, n warm collnr being tho only requlslto for forcing It. Tho roots of tho plnnts should bo dug up Into In tho fall with largo quantities of dirt ndhorlng to them. Theso chunks of earth containing contain-ing the roots may bo piled up outdoors until midwinter when they should bo carried Into tho cellar and placed In n bed prepnred In tho earthen tloor Tho chunks of earth should bo laid close together In rich, moist earth mid i covered to n depth of four to six Inches. Growth soon commences. Light Is not n requisite, lu n short time tho rhubarb will bo ready for tho tnblo. Tho shoots will ho almost colorless mid rcmurknbly tender nnd palatable. A very smnll bed containing only half n dozen well-developed hills will ho sulllclcnt to supply a family for several weeks. Hoots send up a largo iiuinbor of shoots nnd exhaust themselves in nbout four weeks. For nn additional supply roots should be planted at Intervals In-tervals of two or threo weeks. |