. The principles of agriculture, a text-book for schools and rural societies . , maize,and rice. In its largest sense, therefore, the word grass in-cludes many plants which are not commonly recognized asgrasses. 304c. The term grass is popularly used to designate themedium sized and smaller members of the grass family, suchas orchard-grass, timothy, and blue-grass, and not the largergrasses, as oats, sugar-cane, and bamboo. 304rf. The clovers are sometimes erroneously called grasses ;and a field of grass may contain many kinds of plants. Thereare many kinds of clover. The common red clover is
. The principles of agriculture, a text-book for schools and rural societies . , maize,and rice. In its largest sense, therefore, the word grass in-cludes many plants which are not commonly recognized asgrasses. 304c. The term grass is popularly used to designate themedium sized and smaller members of the grass family, suchas orchard-grass, timothy, and blue-grass, and not the largergrasses, as oats, sugar-cane, and bamboo. 304rf. The clovers are sometimes erroneously called grasses ;and a field of grass may contain many kinds of plants. Thereare many kinds of clover. The common red clover is Trifoliunipratense; the medium red is T. medium ; the alsike is T. hyiri-dum, with rose-tinted flowers ; the white or creeping clover,or shamrock, is T. repens; the crimson, used for cover-crops, is M 194 THK IKINCIPLES OF AmtlCULTUBE T. incarnatum. With the exception of Trifolium repcnn, these areintroduced from the Old World. The Japan clover, now muchprized in the South, is really not a, clover, but belongs to aclosely related genus. It is known to botanists as Lespedezn.
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