ROUND-SEEDED SPINACH 



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of growth. It answers well 

 for summer and autumn 

 sowings, and, when sown 

 before winter, is one of the 

 latest kinds to run to seed 

 in spring. 



Victoria Dark Green 

 Summer Spinach. Distin- 

 guished by its dark green 

 glazed leaves, its lateness 

 to flower makes it available 

 during the whole summer. 

 Like other late-seeding 

 Spinaches, it forms a rosette 

 of leaves flat on the soil. 



Savoy-leaved, or Curled, 

 Spinach. A rather curious 

 kind with fairly large, much 

 crumpled, glossy dark green 

 leaves. Early and produc- 

 tive, but rather prone to run 

 quickly to seed. 



Late-seeding-, or Long- 

 standing, Spinach. We are 

 indebted to M. Lambin, Secretary-general of the Soissons Horti- 

 cultural Society, for our acquaintance with this excellent variety, 



which surpasses all others 

 in the length of bearing. 

 The plant forms compact 

 tufts, with numerous dark 

 green leaves somewhat 

 more crimped and less 

 rounded than those of the 

 Lettuce - leaved Spinach, 

 but yet resembling them 

 more than those of any 

 other variety. The leaf- 

 stalks are very short, 

 rarelyexceeding the length 

 of half the blade of the 

 leaf. The distinguishing 

 quality of this variety is, 

 as its name indicates, that 



it runs to seed more slowly 

 and later than any other 



Late-seeding (Long-standing) Spinach. kind. The difference of 



Savoy-leaved Spinach. 



