On the Cultivation of the Tetragonia expansa. 



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summer, and may, from the difference of colour, be easily dis- 

 cerned and collected, when the plants are cleared away ; 

 whereas, without this precaution, the seed being so nearly of 

 a colour with garden mould, it is very difficult to distinguish 

 it, and it then requires much patience and good eyes to pre- 

 serve even a small portion. If the preservation of seed be a 

 considerable object, as soon as the plants are rendered useless 

 for the kitchen by the frost, each branch should be cut off 

 from the main stem, and hung up singly in some dry place, 

 where the seed may be collected as it falls off. If any addi- 

 tional testimony were wanted to the excellence of this 

 culinary vegetable, I might add an extract of a letter from 

 a friend in Hampshire, who writes, " I must express my 

 thanks to you for your valuable present of the Tetragonia, 

 which has supplied my table and that of two of my neigh- 

 bours, from June till the frost destroyed it, and all from three 

 seeds." 



I am, dear Sir, 

 Your obliged humble servant, 



John Brans by. 



Stoke Netvington, 

 February 28, 1823. 



