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Rhubarbe Monarch

Synonymes : Stott’s Monarch

Vers 1894 un semencier de Boston a introduit, d'une importation écossaise, un cultivar de rhubarbe sous le nom de Monarch. Pendant plusieurs années, elle a reçu le premier prix aux expositions de la Massachusetts Horticultural Society, comme la variété la plus grande et la plus fine. À une occasion, les douze tiges montrées pesaient 28 livres, sans feuilles.

La longueur moyenne des tiges est d'environ 15 pouces, mais elles sont de grande taille, de nombreuses tiges pesant plus d'une livre chacune. La couleur est assez brillante. Il ressemble considérablement au Mammoth Red ou au Stott's Mammoth et mûrit à peu près au même moment, mais est moins abondant.

Couleur pétiole : Rouge
Origine : Écosse
Année : ENV 1894
Développer par : Un semencier de Boston a introduit une importation scotch de semences de rhubarbe il y a une quinzaine d'années sous le nom de Monarch.

Citations portant sur la Rhubarbe Monarch

Monarch — A Boston seedsman introduced a Scotch importation of rhubarb about fifteen years ago under the name of Monarch. For several years it was awarded first prize at the exhibitions of the Mass. Horticultural Society, as the largest and finest variety. On one occasion the twelve stalk shown weighed '28 pounds, leaves off. The writer has found this kind rather inferior in quality and the skin is rough. The average length of the stalks is about 15 inches, but they are of large size, many stalks weighing more than one pound each. Color is fairly brighi. It considerably resembles Mammoth Red or Stott's Mammoth, and matures at about the same time, but is a less abundant yielder.
Source : The new rhubarb culture - A complete guide to dark forcing and field culture, Morse, John Elliott; Fiske, George Burnap, 1901

The writer has found this kind rather inferior in quality and the skin is rough. The average length of the stalks is about 15 inches, but they are of large size, many stalks weighing more than one pound each. Color is fairly bright. It considerably resembles Mammoth Red or Stott’s Mammoth, and matures at about the same time, but is a less abundant yielder.
Source : The new rhubarb culture - A complete guide to dark forcing and field culture, Morse, John Elliott; Fiske, George Burnap, 1901

The favourite old sorts of rhubarb were the Tobolsk and the Elford or Buck’s; the latter comes from R. undulatum, and is one of the best in flavour, as well as of a flue red colour. Other good sorts of more modern date are Mitchell’s Royal Albert, Dancer’s Early Scarlet, Myatt’s Linnaeus, and Myatt’s Victoria, the last a large-growing thick-stalked kind, the others being all earlier sorts. Johnson’s St Martin’s and Salt’s Crimson Perfection are also favourite kinds; and Stott’s Monarch grows to a very large size.
Source : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ninth Edition, Vol XII, 1881

Stott’s Monarch, an extraordinary green kind, producing immense stalks, which are of fine flavour; the growth is very distinct; a desirabie novelty for Exhibition.
Source : Catalogue of fruit trees cultivated by George Bunyard & Co., Royal Nurseries, Maidstone, 1898-1899, 1898

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