Show jel AGE GE I 1 5 E i RHUBARB ONE OF BEST PRODUCERS early spring vegetable responds to liberal supply of best soil Aval available lable PLANT IN OUT OF WAY PLACE along garden fence where roots Root will sWill not be injured in cultivation of rest of garden Is I 1 good location rhubarb or pieplant lant ns as I 1 it t Is will e t I 1 mes called cannot be grown universally ver sally but Is limited to certain definite sections information as to h e ther rhubarb will or will not grow 1 in a given loca locality I 1 ity can be obtained froin roin the local seeds men or from neighbors who ho have hae had experience in growing lat it rhubarb Is propagated propagated by planting pieces of the roots secured by dividing older hills and six to ten hills will usually supply plenty of rhubarb for tile the average family states the united states department of agriculture rhubarb should be planted exactly tile hie same way vay as asparagus that Is ill the e roots or crowns should be covered four or five inches in deeply spaded A f A rhubarb a generous producer all enriched oni eclied soil there Is little illner of the soil too rich for rhu rhudarb larb the hills hill sit should be three nd a half if to f four t ur feet apart if wore more than one row Is planted tills this wonderful staple of the fa family nilly pardon garden can generally genei ally be planted along tit the e fence bore it will be out of the way illy of c cultivation u it I 1 catl 0 n the thick leaf stems are the part used a and nil vote should be pulled front from tile the plants tile the first ars t year after seeding lint but a large supply will he be available the second season and the hills will as s a rule continue to produce satisfactory crops of 0 for several ears after which they should be divided and reset rhubarb should receive the same attention and treatment it during winter as asparagus and the plants pants should ho u id never be allowed to ri ripen pe n and seed e d tile roots rony may be brought brough t into t the lie greenhouse pit cold frame or cellar I 1 luring during the winter and forced force by placing a barrel over a rhubarb plant much longer and tender stalks mar he be grown chis Is one plant that does not thrive in warm climates it Is n most lost popular in the sections where here it Is grown in the early part of the spring the use of rhubarb li is principally for making lits pies pes and sauces and many housewives can call the steins for winter use |