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Sealey's Leviathan IB 
Seymour's Solid White 14 
Small Dutch 9 
Snijselderif 9 
Solid Ivory 15 
Soup 9 
Sutton's Prize Pink 21 
Sutton's Sulham Prize 21 
Tours Purple 24 
Turner's Dwarf White 8 
Turner's Incomparable 8 
Turmos Red 22 
Vollrippiger dicker niedriger weisser Sellerie 4 
Vollrippiger Klausblattriger Sellerie 3 
Weisser krausbldttriger Bleich- Sellerie 3 
White Curled Giant of Naples 16 
White Plume '! 26 
White Skaget 17 
White Solid Curled 3 
White Walnut 18 
Wilcox's Dunham Bed 22 
Yellow Golden Solid 25 
SPINACH. 
The varieties of spinach are not numerous, and for the most part are 
not clearly denned. With the exception of the Prickly-Seeded, which 
some botanists have ranked as a distinct species, the chief differences 
between the varieties described in this article lie in their vigor, 
hardiness and time of running to seed. In the more improved 
varieties the leaves are thicker, more succulent and less distinctly 
hastate than in those less improved, but in all the leaves incline to 
hastate. 
[Spinach appears to have been introduced into Europe through 
Spain by the Mauro-Spaniards. According to Beckman, the first 
notice of its use as an edible in Europe occurs in 1351 in a list of 
vegetables used by {he monks on fast days, but in the Nabathean 
agriculture in Spain, in the twelfth century, Ibn-al-Awam speaks of 
it as a prince of vegetables. Albertus Magnus,, who lived in Germany, 
and died in the year 1280, knew the prickly seeded form, and the 
Ortus Sanitatis, of 1511, figures the spinach and gives a Greek name, 
aspenach. It was also well known to Agricola in 1539. In England, 
the name spynoches occurs in a cook book of 1390 compiled under the 
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