Vegetable Cultivar Descriptions for North America

Rhubarb, Lists 1-26 Combined

Edited by Todd C. Wehner, Jeanine M. Davis and George B. Cox

Alberger - Breeder: Mr. Alberger, Busleton, Pa. Vendor: Eastern States Farmer Exchange, West Springfield, Mass. Parentage: unknown. Characteristics: short neck, flat globe shape, reddish top, pale yellow flesh, small tap root, early maturity. Similar: Early Neckless. Adaptation: northeastern United States. Eastern States Coop. 1946.

Canada Red - Vendor: St. Lawrence Nurseries. Characteristics: introduced in Canada; very popular cultivar; stems shorter and more slender than many seedling types, but very tender with high quality and good red color.

Cherry Red - Vendor: Gurney's. Characteristics: cherry-red color and tart taste with oversized stalks.

Chipman's Canadian Red - Vendor: Gurney's. Characteristics: bright red color that holds up after cooking, sweeter than most cultivars, dependable yields.

Crimson Red - Vendor: Gurney's. Characteristics: one of the best cultivars for flavor, tall stalks, dependable producer.

Glaskin's Perpetual - Vendor: Seeds-by-Size. Characteristics: bright red color, can be pulled the first year after sowing.

Jersey - Breeder: New Jersey Agr. Expt. Sta., New Brunswick. Vendor: Clarence Steelman, Princeton, N.J. Parentage: Macdonald x Sutton's Seedless. Characteristics: upright habit of growth; unusual vigor; reasonably good color; long broad petioles; fine flavor; requires less sugar. N.J. Hort. Soc. News, Feb. 1955.

Large Victoria - Vendor: Seeds-by-Size. Characteristics: can be pulled the first year after sowing.

Macdonald - Vendor: Burpee. Characteristics: excellent flavor, bright red color, tender skin.

Valentine - Breeder and vendor: Hort. Expt. Sta., Vineland Station, Ont., Canada. Vendor: Burpee, Gurney's. Parentage: open pollinated seedling of Macdonald. Characteristics: brilliant red color with deep red flesh; high quality; absence of seed stalks; specially suitable for freezing; good rosy color when cooked, broad stalks 22" long, superb flavor. Similar: Macdonald. Adaptation: wide. Hort. Expt. Sta. Rpt. 1945.

Victoria - Vendor: Lonestar, Mellinger, Seeds-by-Size. Characteristics: large green stalks, late forcing cultivar.

Waltham Yellow - Breeder: R.E. Young, Waltham Field Sta., Univ. of Massachusetts, Waltham. Vendor: Brecks. Parentage: yellow variant of White Cape. Characteristics: green shoulders. Similar: American Purple Top. Adaptation: New England. 1947.