ROUND-SEEDED SPINACH 



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leaves. Seed round. This form may be considered as the type of 

 the 'Round-seeded varieties, which are improved modifications of it. 

 At the present time, the Spinach which is most frequently sold 

 under the name of Dutch Spinach, especially in Germany, is nothing 

 but the Lettuce-leaved Spinach. 



Round-seeded Flanders Spinach. This is the best-known 

 and most extensively cultivated Round-seeded Spinach. Its 

 characteristics are almost the same as those of the true Dutch 

 Spinach, but it is of somewhat greater size, and the leaves are 



Round-seeded Flanders Spinach. 



rounder and less arrow-shaped. It is an excellent and productive 

 variety, and may be sown nearly all the year round. When sown 

 in autumn, it yields a very considerable crop in spring, and in this 

 respect it and the following variety have a marked advantage over 

 the Late-seeding Spinach, the growth of which is not so vigorous 

 at the end of winter. The latter, however, in its turn, surpasses 



Viroflay Giant Spinach ( natural size). 



them in the summer months, when it yields a continuous supply of 

 broad tender leaves, after the earlier varieties have entirely run to 

 seed. 



Viroflay Giant Spinach. This variety, which is a rather new 

 one, resembles the Flanders Spinach in the shape of its leaves and 



