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to be thinned out. The seed, though commonly sown 
broad-cast, are best in drills or rows nine inches apart, so 
as to admit of hoeing between. 
New Zeavanp Spinacn (Tetragonia expansa) is a half- 
hardy annual, a native of New Zealand, from which it was 
‘brought by the late Sir Joseph Banks. The plants grow 
tall, spread wide, and the leaves form a good substitute for 
spinach. If the plants be well watered, they will continue 
to afford large quantities of succulent leaves during the 
hottest and driest weather, when summer spinach is useless. 
In England, the seed is usually sown in a pot placed ina 
melon-frame in March: the seedlings are transplanted 
singly into small pots, and kept under cover till the begin- 
ning of June, when they are plunged out at two or three 
feet apart, and treated somewhat like gourds. In gathering 
the leaves, care should be taken not to injure the leading 
shoots. 
Quinoa Spinacy (Chenopodium Quinoa). This vegeta- 
ble is a native not only of Chili but of the table land of 
Mexico. It is described and figured by Ruiz and Pavon; 
and Humboldt informs us that in Mexico the leaves are 
universally used as spinach or greens, and the seeds in 
soups, or like rice, so that quinoa there vies in utility. with 
the potato itself. Although the plant had been known in 
Britain for a number of years, it was only during the 
autumn of 1834 that any considerable portion of seed was 
ripened or saved in this country. This was accomplished 
at Boyton in Wiltshire, by Mr. Aylmer Bourke Lambert, 
the well-known patron of botany and horticulture. Con- 
sidering the elevated region in America in which the quinoa 
is successfully cultivated, there can be no doubt that its 
herbage may be freely produced in England ; but it seems 
