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plants are to stand. It matures quickly, and, unlike 

 many other kinds of pot-herb plants, it is not injured by 

 warm weather. However, the crop is usually harvested 

 before midsummer, as greens are not in demand at that 

 time. There seems to be little danger of the cultivated 

 purslane self-sowing and becoming a bad weed. 



Other Pot-herb Plants. To the plants discussed in 

 the foregoing pages, several others might be added. 

 The strawberry blite ( Chenopodium capitatum or Blitum 

 capitatum) is a native pig weed -like annual of easy cul- 

 ture, which is sometimes offered by seedsmen. It seems 

 to have no unusual merits. An allied plant is Quinoa, 

 which is grown in all ways like orach. Kale (see Chap- 

 ter XII) is really a pot-herb plant; and it would not be 

 great violence to include cabbage in this group. Several 

 docks and sorrels are grown as pot-herbs, but as these 

 are perennial they are discussed in Chapter XX. 



