Rhubarb is one of bhe besb and mosfe use ful vegetables which can be grown. It not only makes a very pleasanb dieh, bub many claim for ib considerable medicinal proper ties. Now, in bhis part of New Zealand, the rhubarb plant has nob as yeb received the abbenbion which ib requires. In Britain, if a bed was planted wibh rhu barb, ib would continue giving good crops for three or four years in succession, if only well manured every season. Now, here, a little more abtention is necessary. Ib must be lifted, sub-divided, and planted every season, as the old plants soon get ex hausted. Better still would be for the cultivators every to raise a number of seedlings, and every spring to plant out these young plants to produce the crops. The crop from these young plants will be much larger and of finer quality than the produce from old, sub-divided plants. All that is necessary every spring (aboub bhe end of Augusb) is to sow a few rows of seed in some light, rich soil. The seed will soon germinate, and all the cultivation necessary the firsb year will be to thin oub all weakly-looking plants, and keep bhem free from weeds. If the plants are kept moi3b during bhe summer, bhey will coh binue growing all summer and autumn, and, in will produce during the autumn a good number of stalks, which will do for use. At the same time, I would nob advise a too free use of the crop the first year, as it would tend to weaken the plants for next season's crops. Aboub bhe end of May all the young plants should be lifted, and if possible stored under a tree where they will be partly shaded from the sun's raya. In our climate, if the rhubarb plants are lefb in the ground all winter the roots will be more or less active all thab time we nob having sufficienb cold weabher bo give bhem a check and keep them dormant during bhe winber. This- activity during the winter partly spoils them from cropping the following season. The ground for the plants of the decond year's growth which is to produce the croD, should be specially prepared. During "the month of May it should be brenched bo a depbh of ab least two spades. 