Coox’s first voyage to the Pacific Ocean; at a time wheit 
from its esculent qualities, it was in no ordinary degree 
acceptable, and more especially at'Tongatabu in the Cap- 
tain’s second voyage when its virtues were better known. 
The first account of this plant being cultivated as an — 
esculent herb in Europe, is given by Count D’Ourcues in 
the Annales d’Agriculture for September 1819. In the’ 
Fourth Volume of the Transactions of the Horticultural 
Society is a dissertation on the advantage of cultivating this 
plant, as a substitute for summer Spinach, by Mr. Joun 
Anperson, gardiner to the Earl of Essex; from whose 
account it may be gathered that it is a very valuable 
acquisition to the culinary garden, being by most persons 
preterred to Spinach, and affording a more ready succes- 
sion in the hot months, when the latter is with great 
difficulty kept in order for supplying the table, from its 
running so speedily into flower. : 
It is not very tender, resisting at the latter end of the 
year a greater degree of frost than what will destroy Po: 
tatoes, Nasturtiums, and other tender annuals. It is to be 
first raised ina melon frame, and planted in the open air 
after the middle of May, in a richly manured bed. But to. 
procure seeds by which, being a annual, it is only to be 
propagated, Mr. Anperson recommends some of the plants 
to be raised in poor ground or confined in pots, as is 
practised to procure seeds from the Ice plant. 
Communicated by Joun Water, Esq. of Arno’s Grove, 
