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Asparagus Potato. — Tubers oblong, slender, from seven 

 to eight inches long, brownish white, or inclining to pale red ; 

 flesh pale, firm, waxy, and of superior flavour. 



Mouse Potato. — In Germany known as the little Scotch 

 potato. Dwarf and productive. 



Pine-Apple or Cone Potato. — Tubers somewhat like the 

 cone of a stone pine, after the scales have expanded by heat. 



Spanish Dwarf Potato. — Only four inches high, hairy 

 green leaves, a moderate bearer, and late in ripening. 



Union Lettuce. — " An excellent summer cabbage lettuce, 

 hearting well, of a good size, and remaining long, without 

 running to seed." Seed-shops. 



Black-seeded Gotte (or Gau) Lettuce. — The smallest of 

 all cabbage lettuces, except the tennis-ball. It has black seeds, 

 and is of French origin. 



Ice Lettuce of the United States. — Comes into use with the 

 white Silesian, which it resembles. 



Proliferous Leek. — Curious ; the common leek viviparous. 



Flanders Spinach. — " Far superior to the prickly or com- 

 mon winter spinach." " Equally hardy, perhaps hardier." 

 The seeds, destitute of prickles, are sold by the French and 

 Dutch seedsmen, and may be had from the principal British 

 seed-dealers. Worth having. 



New Zealand Spinach, Tetragonia expansa. — Coming into 

 general use as a summer spinach. The seeds are now common 

 in the seed-shops. 



Sea Beet, Beta maritima. — The leaves an excellent substi- 

 tute for spinach. The plants are perennial, and in a good soil 

 will supply leaves for many years, from the middle of April 

 till the plants begin to run, and through the whole summer 

 and autumn, by cutting off the flowering stems as they arise. 

 Readily increased by seeds, and also by dividing the roots. 

 The Irish variety of this plant differs a little from the English 

 variety. 



A correspondent in the neighbourhood of Doncaster informs 

 us, that he sows the common green beet three times a year, 

 exactly in the same way as he does spinach, and has a perpe- 

 tual supply of an excellent substitute for that vegetable. By 

 cutting the leaves when quite young, they are as tender, even 

 during the hottest period of summer, as those of the common 

 spinach are in spring and autumn. A perennial spinach, 

 however, whether from the Beta maritima, or Chenopodium 

 Bonus Henricus, is very desirable in every garden, as a 

 resource in case of neglect or accident, and because the plants, 

 being in perpetual maturity, and abundantly furnished with 



