An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 944 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. 6176. The rhubarb (TJh
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 944 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. 6176. The rhubarb (TJheum palmatum L.,Jig. 813. c) is a perennial, with thick oval roots which strike deep into the ground, large palmate leaves, and flower-stems six or eight feet liigh. Its leaves are the best of all the kinds of rhul)arb for tarts. The Society of Arts exerted itself for many years to promote the culture of this plant, as did Dr. Hope of Edinburgh. It has accordingly been cultivated with success both in England and Scotland; though the quality of the root produced is considered by the faculty inferior to that of the Russia or Turkey rhubarb, as Professor Martyn thinks, an inferiority pro- bably owing to the moisture of our climate, and the imperfect mode of drying. fil77. /« tlie culture of this plant, if bulk of produce be the object, then a deep, rich, loamy sand should be chosen ; but if flavour, then a dry, warm, somewhat calcareous sand. Prepare as for liquorice,- and sow in patches of two or three seeds, in rows four feet apart, and the same distance in the rows. Transplanting from seed-beds may be adopted ; but the roots are never so liandsome and entire. As soon as the plants appear, leave only one in a place. The plants vvill now stand in the angles of squares of four feet to the side. The after-culture consists in horse-hoeing and deep stirring, both lengthwise and across; in ploughing in the same directions; in never letting the flower-stems rise higher than two feet
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