Excerpt from Descriptions of Types of Principal American Varieties of Spinach As the title suggests, the object of this publication is'to describe as accurately and as definitely as possible the form or plan of structure of the most important varieties of spinach (spinacia oleracea L.) grown in the United States at the present time. Insofar as possible, informa tion is also given on the relative importance of varieties for specific purposes and locations, their resistance to disease, and their reaction to different environments. Since the better plants were selected for description and illustration, these descriptions are somewhat above the average plants of the best commercial stock-s avail able, but they do represent standards quite possible of attainment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.