. The natural history of the farm; a guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature. Natural history. 238 NATURAL HISTORY OP THE FARM tion for subsequent crops. Most other crops deplete the soil, but the clovers enrich it, and restore its fertility. The clovers also furnish the finest of the honey crop—especially white clover, which fills the land with the fragrance of its nectar in June. Among them are excellent soU- PiG. 86. White clover. (This and other binders for holding togcth- drawings bearing the same monogram pre- „ i-u„ ont-faoo Iqttoi-c! ^f paredby Miss Oli
. The natural history of the farm; a guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature. Natural history. 238 NATURAL HISTORY OP THE FARM tion for subsequent crops. Most other crops deplete the soil, but the clovers enrich it, and restore its fertility. The clovers also furnish the finest of the honey crop—especially white clover, which fills the land with the fragrance of its nectar in June. Among them are excellent soU- PiG. 86. White clover. (This and other binders for holding togcth- drawings bearing the same monogram pre- „ i-u„ ont-faoo Iqttoi-c! ^f paredby Miss Olive for this book, ^r tne SUnaCC layers Ot eroding hill slopes; excel- lent cover-crops for the orchard in the dry season; and excellent plants for the lawn and the fence-row. And besides all these very practical noatters, there is their beauty! Crimson clover, red clover, white clover—^what neatness and elegance of design in the single sprays; what beauty of leaf form; what freshness of flowers! And in mass, also, they give fine landscape effects— the red outspread over the plain like a carpet of roses; the white sprinkled over the green hills like flakes of fugitive snow. All the clovers are deep-rooting herbs that grow in spreading ttifts and bear trifoliate leaves, having stipules at the base of the leaf-stalk. They have small flowers in clusters, and short, few-seeded f,c. gy. R^d Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Needham, James G. (James George), 1868-1956. Ithaca, N. Y. , The Comstock Publishing Company
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