country at the rate of about eight pounds per ton, or one-seventh of the cost of hemp. Among the useful plants for which we are indebted to New Zealand, we must not forget their summer spinach (Tetragonia expansa— Murray), which was discovered on Cook’s first voyage by Sir Joseph Banks, and was “boiled and eaten as greens ’ ’ by the crew. It was after wards seen by Forster at Tongataboo, though it was not used by the natives; but Thunberg found the Japanese acquainted with its value as a pot-herb. It was introduced into Kew Gardens in 1772; but the first account of it as a vegetable worthy of cultivation, was published by Count D’Auraches in the “Annales d’Agriculture” for 1809. Its chief advantage lies in the leaves being fit for use during the summer, even in the driest weather, up to the setting in of the frosts, when the common spinach is useless; but it is not reckoned of so fine a flavour as that plant. The Rev. J. Bransby says that the produce of three seeds, which must be reared by heat before planting out, supplied his own table and those of two of his friends from June till the frost killed it.