. Annual catalogue : seeds, bulbs, plants, implements, etc. Seed industry and trade Ohio Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. Red Clover. Sapling Mammoth Large English or Pea Vine Clover—Trifolium Pratense Perenne. Compared with common Red Clover, its flowers, foliage and stems are of a dark- er color, and its seed is the product of the flowers of the first crop, while the common Red Clover is the product of the flowers of the second crop. It is valuable when sown with other grasses for mixed hay, as it ripens later than the common Red Clover and about the time that
. Annual catalogue : seeds, bulbs, plants, implements, etc. Seed industry and trade Ohio Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. Red Clover. Sapling Mammoth Large English or Pea Vine Clover—Trifolium Pratense Perenne. Compared with common Red Clover, its flowers, foliage and stems are of a dark- er color, and its seed is the product of the flowers of the first crop, while the common Red Clover is the product of the flowers of the second crop. It is valuable when sown with other grasses for mixed hay, as it ripens later than the common Red Clover and about the time that Timothy, Orchard and other grasses ripen, thereby making the hay a much better quality. The best for soiling purposes. Market price, Sainfoin or Esparsette-A perennial, the dura- tion of good crops being about eight years. Grows two to three feet high; flowers in spikes from June to August of a beautiful pink or flesh color, on long foot-stalks. By mail, post-paid, 30c. lb. 100 lbs. $ White Dutch Clover—Trifolium Repens.— Grows naturally in pastures in a great variety of soils and situations, and is an indispensible requisition in all parks and lawns. By mail, post-paid, 45 cts. lb.; 100 lbs. $ Alfalfa Clover. The most valuable forage plant. It thriv- es best on a sandy loam, the richer the better,and in such will produce several crops every season. In the driest and most sultry weather, when every blade of grass withers, Alfalfa is as fresh and green as in the spring, as its roots go down from 10 to 20 feet to the moisture of the ground. Although a prodigious yielder it does not exhaust the soil, but rather improves the ground by the decay of its long roots, and converts it into rich ground, full of vegetable matter. The seed may be sown early in the spring. Alf- alfa will not flourish on land where water stands a short distance below the surface, nor in heavy, sticky clay. It attains its highest perfection on mellow, well drained or rolling land. Sow (drill
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