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time in its favour may be estimated at from fifteen to twenty 



days at least, according 

 to circumstances, and is 

 especially marked in 

 spring sowings, which are 

 so often liable to run to 

 seed too soon. 



L o n g - s t a n d i n g 

 Catillon Spinach. A 

 ^te long-bearing kind; 

 leaves medium-sized, 



j j , , . ^, 



rounded, resembling those 

 of the preceding, but smoother ; a very good variety for spring and 

 summer sowing. 



Long-standing Catillon Spinach. 



NEW ZEALAND SPINACH 



Tetragonia expansa, Ait. Mesembryantliemacea. 



French, Tetragone cornue. German, Neuseelandischer Spinat. Flemish^ Vierhouk. 

 Danish, Nyseeland>k Spinat. Italian, Tetragona. 



Native of New Zealand. Annual. Stems spreading, branched, 

 from 2 to over 3 ft. long, bearing numerous alternate thick, fleshy 

 leaves, resembling Orache leaves in shape ; flowers axillary, small, 

 greenish, and without petals, succeeded by hard horned seed-vessels 

 somewhat like the Water 

 Chestnut in shape, and of 

 an almost woody texture 

 in the interior, where the 

 seeds are enclosed. The 

 germinating power of the 

 seeds lasts for five years. 

 This plant is grown to 

 supply the place of the 

 ordinary Spinach during 

 the hottest months of the 

 year, or in dry, arid 

 localities where theordinary 

 Spinach does badly. The 

 seed is sown, either in a 

 hot-bed or in the open 

 ground, where the plants 

 are to stand, in May, and 

 the plants will continue to New Zealand s P inach ' 



yield a supply of leaves during the whole summer, requiring 

 hardly any attention. The leaves are eaten boiled and minced 

 like ordinary Spinach. 



