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are dioecious, the fertile and barren blossoms being produced 

 on separate plants ; the seeds are small, triangular, smooth, 

 of a brownish color, and retain their germinative prop- 

 erties two years. An ounce contains nearly thirty thousand 

 seeds. 



Of the Common Sorrel there are five varieties, as fol- 

 low : 



Leaves ten or twelve inches long by six Belleville 



Sorrel. Vil. 

 inches in diameter ; leaf-stems red at the base. BROAD-LEAVED. 



Compared with the Common Garden Sorrel, the leaves are 

 larger and less acid. 



The variety is considered much superior to the last-named 

 sort, and is the kind usually grown by market gardeners in 

 the vicinity of Paris. 



It should be planted in rows eighteen inches apart, and the 

 plants thinned to a foot apart in the rows. 



Radical leaves nine inches long, four inches Blistered- 



leaf Sorrel, 

 wide, oval-hastate or halberd-shaped, growing Trans. 



on long footstalks. The upper leaves are more blistered 

 than those attached to the root ; the flower-stems are short. 

 The principal diiference between this variety and the Com- 

 mon, or Broad-leaved, consists in its blistered foliage. 



It is slow in the development of its flower-stem, and con- 

 sequently remains longer in season for use. The leaves are 

 only slightly acid in comparison with those of the Common 

 Sorrel. It is a perennial, and must be increased by a di- 

 vision of its roots ; for being only a variety, and riot per- 

 manently established, seedlings from it frequently return to 

 the Belleville, from whence it sprung. 



An excellent sort, with large, yellowish-green, Fervent's 

 blistered leaves and red leaf-stems. It is com- Sorrel. Vil. 



