On Or ache, its Varieties and Cultivation. 131 



English Horticultural writers enumerate two, others three, and 

 some four varieties. Besides its name of Garden Orache, or 

 Mountain Spinach, it is called hy British gardeners, French 

 Spinach and Bourdeaux Spinach. The French have several 

 kinds, distinguished by names quoted here as Synonyms to 

 some of the seven varieties which w ere raised last summer 

 in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, and which are 

 intended to be now described. These, though differing 

 but little from each other for culinary purposes, are worthy 

 of notice, and deserving of cultivation, on account of the 

 beauty and variety of their foliage. Miller, in the Eighth 

 Edition of his Dictionary, mentions three sorts, the Deep 

 Green, the Dark Purple, and the Green with Purple Borders, 

 these, he observes, never vary from seed. My experience how- 

 ever leads me to state, that the varieties occasionally sport. 



1. White Orache. 



Synonyms. 

 Atriplex hortensis alba, C. Bauhin. 

 Atriplex hortensis pallide virens, C. Bauhin. 



White French Spinach, of the Dutch. 



Pale Green Orache, Neill.* 

 Arroche blonde, Bon Jardinier. 

 Arroche blanche, Jardin Potager.t 

 Arroche vert jaund.tr e, Noisette.:}: 



The leaves are of a yellowish-green, very rugose with 

 acuminated points, and are much dentated towards the base, 

 which forms two acute angles. The stem and petioles are 



* Art. Horticulture, in Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, 

 f L'Ecole du Jardin Potager, Paris, 12mo. 1802. 

 % Manuel Complet du Jardinier. 



