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the plants, by formins? a Irencli two feet 

 wide, ami one foot deep, wliicli mnst be 

 filled level to the surface with rotten 

 dung from an old curumber-bed ; the 

 dung must be covered with six inches 

 of garden mould, thus creating an ele- 

 vated ridge in the middle of the bed, 

 the sides of which must extend three 

 feet from tire centre. Tiie plants must 

 Le put out tince feet apart; I planted 

 mine at only two feet distance from 

 each other, but they were too near. In 

 five or six weeks from the planting, 

 their branches will have grown sufli- 

 ciently to allow the gathering of the 

 leaves for use. In dry seasons the 

 plants will probably require a good sup- 

 ply of water. They put forth their 

 branches vigorously as sooti as they 

 have taken to the ground, and extend 

 before the end of the season, three feet 

 on each side from the centre of the bed. 



The brauciies are round, numerous, 

 succulent, pale-green, thick and strong, 

 somewhat procumbent, but elevating 

 their terminations. The leaves are 

 fleshy, growing alternately at small 

 distances from each other, on shortish 

 petioles ; they are of a deltoid shape, 

 but rather elongated, being from two to 

 three inches broad at the top, and from 

 three to four inches long ; the apex is 

 sdmost sharp-pointed, and the two ex- 

 tremities of the base are bluntly rounded; 

 the whole leaf is smooth, with entire 

 edges dark green above, below paler, 

 and thickly studded with aqueous tu- 

 bercles ; the mid-rib and veins project 

 conspicuously on the under surface. 

 The flowers are sessile in the alae of the 

 leaves, small and green, and, excejit 

 that they show their yellow anthcrai 

 when they expand, they arc very incon- 

 spicuous, Tlic fruit, wlien ripe, has a 

 dry pericarp of a rude sJiape, with four 

 or five born-like processes inclosing the 

 seed, which is to be seen in its covering. 



In gathering for use, the young leaves 

 must be pinched olf the branches, taking 

 care to leave (he leading shoot unin- 

 jured ; this, witli the smaller branches 

 which subsequently arise from the ahe 

 of the leaves which have been gathered, 

 will produce a supply until a late period 

 in the year, for the plants arc siifticiently 

 liardy to withstand the frosts which kill 

 nasturtiums, potatoes, and sucii tender 

 vegetables. 



The telrngonia is, I understand, 

 dressed exactly in the same manner as 

 spinach ; and whether boiled, plain or 

 stewed, is considered by many superior 



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to it ; there is a softness and mildness in 

 its taste, added to its flavour, which re- 

 sembles that of spinach, in which it has 

 an advantage over that herb. 



My whole crop, in the present year, 

 consisted solely of nine plants, and from 

 these I have been enabled to send in a 

 gathering for the kitchen every other day 

 since the middle of June, so that I con- 

 sider a bed with about twenty plants, 

 quite sufficient to give a daily supply, if 

 required, for a large table. 



The great advantage of this vegetable 

 is as a substitute for summer spinach. 

 Every gardener knows the plague that 

 attends the frequent sowing of spinach 

 through the warm season of the year; 

 without that trouble it is impossible to 

 have it good, and with the utmost care 

 it cannot always he even so obtained 

 exactly as it ought to be (particularly 

 when the weather is hot and dry), from 

 the rapidity with which the young plants 

 run to seed. 



SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF 

 ARTS, &C. 



On reclaiming Waste Moor Land. By 

 J. Peart, esq. of Settle. 



I beg to lay before the Society an 

 account of the improvement of Cfly-six 

 acres, three roods, and twenty-tive 

 perches of land, statute measure, lying 

 waste and uncultivated, and the ex- 

 penses attending such improvement. 



The land at Ingleton was of the worst 

 quality I have ever yet seen attempted 

 to be cultivated, being a short ling, on 

 a black, barren, turbary soil ; that at 

 Grassington was covered with a strong 

 ling, on turf earth, with yellow soil 

 under the tu-f. The situation of this 

 land being too high for crops of corn, 

 I have endeavoured to convert it into 

 grass land. 



The plan I have pursued on tiie above 

 parcels of land was, first, to burn the 

 ling, where it was strong, then to grave 

 the land with spades; after that was 

 done, I caused the wliole surface to be 

 made perfectly level, by cutting it with 

 sharp spades, then had it limed, and 

 sown with grass seeds, grown in the 

 neighbourhood, and white Dutch clover 

 seed ; part of the land was sown with 

 seeds before the lime was spread, and 

 the remainder was sown after the lime 

 was spread on the surface. The ad- 

 vantage of graving was, getting the 

 ground turnrii up deeper than if it had 

 been ploughed, and bringing up a little 

 2 1 yellow 



