. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. lH94,p. 573. G. W. Oliver and W. M. CLOUDBERRY. See Bubus. CLOVE PINK. phyllus. The Carnation, Dianthus Caryo- CLOVER. Species of Trifblium (Leguminosae), par- ticularly those which are useful in agriculture. The
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. lH94,p. 573. G. W. Oliver and W. M. CLOUDBERRY. See Bubus. CLOVE PINK. phyllus. The Carnation, Dianthus Caryo- CLOVER. Species of Trifblium (Leguminosae), par- ticularly those which are useful in agriculture. The word is also applied to species of related genera, as Medicago. The Sweet Clover is Melilotus. Bush and Japan Clover are Lespedezas. Prairie Clover is a Petalostemon. Of Trifoliura there have been described about 300 species. These are widely dispersed in temperate cli- mates. The fls. are papilionaceous but small, and are disposed in dense heads or spikes. Lvs. are digitately or palmately ^-foliolate. The common Red Clover is T. pratense, Linn., now thoroughly naturalized in N. America, but supposed ni>t to be native here. It is Eu- ropean. It is valuable both for stock feed (as pastur- age and hay), and also as a green manure. As a manure crop, it is particularly valuable because of its deep root- system and its power (in common with other leguminous plants) of fixing the nitrogen of the air by means of its subterranean parts. Fig. 497 illustrates the root- system. Fig. 498 shows the root of a 15-months' old plant which grew in hard clay soil. It is 22 inches long, and some of the root was left in the ground. The Mam- moth Red Clover (T. medium, Linn.), is probably an off- shoot of T. pratense. It is usually a larger plant, with zigzag stem, entire and spotted Ifts. and longer-stalked head. White Clover, or Shamrock, is T. repcns, Linn., intr. from Europe, and supposed to be native to N. America as well. Alsike Clover, T. hf/hridum, Linn., is of European nativity. The Cri
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