SPINACEOUS PLANTS. 



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Exmouth, observes, in the Gardener's Magazine for 

 February, 1829, 'The JVew Zealand spinach is 

 quite a weed with us, as, wherever it has once grown, 

 plants rise spontaneously, even when the seeds have 

 been wheeled out with the dung in the winter, and 

 again brought in as manure in the spring. I have 

 now a full supply of it in my old pink bed.' This 

 spinach has an advantage over the common sort 

 under cultivation, in producing an abundance of large 

 and succulent leaves during the hot weather, when the 

 latter plant runs almost immediately to seed, and pro- 

 duces little or nothing. It is likewise milder in fla- 

 vour, and of so rapid growth, that a bed with about 

 twenty plants is sufficient for the daily supply of a 

 large family. 



New Zealand Spinach Tetragunia expansa. 



Though by some called a biennial, this spinach is 

 an annual in our climate. The stem has numerous 



