. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 333. Red clover. heads with brighter-colored flowers, the narrower stipules and leaflets. The perennial form of T. pra- tense, or mammoth clover, is apparently a difi'erent plant; the name perenne has been applied to it in popular writings, but the name has no technical botanical standing. The Orel clover {T. pratense var. foliosum, Brsmd) is a hairless form introduced from Russia. It " is distinguished by the dustlessness of its hay, due to almost complete absence of hairiness from all parts of the plant, by its heavy yields for
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 333. Red clover. heads with brighter-colored flowers, the narrower stipules and leaflets. The perennial form of T. pra- tense, or mammoth clover, is apparently a difi'erent plant; the name perenne has been applied to it in popular writings, but the name has no technical botanical standing. The Orel clover {T. pratense var. foliosum, Brsmd) is a hairless form introduced from Russia. It " is distinguished by the dustlessness of its hay, due to almost complete absence of hairiness from all parts of the plant, by its heavy yields for the first crop, by its leafiness and the persistence of the basal leaves, by the succulence of the stems, which improves greatly the quality of the hay and reduces the waste due to woody uneatable por- tions, by greater palatability than hay from domes- tic seed, and by the fact that it comes to proper maturity for harvesting from ten days to two weeks later than the ordinary American red clover " [Charles J. Brand, Bulletin No. 95, Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, 1906]. The plants are more upright than those of the common red clover and branch more freely ; the spots are sometimes absent from the leaves; the flower-heads are smaller and less compact and tend to be more elongated. It seems to be perennial. This new clover has been tested in a number of places in the United States and Canada with promising results. It is recom- mended as a supplement to common red clover. It is thought that it may profitably supplant com- mon red clover "where the best methods of man- agement indicate that only one crop, either of hay or seed and a light aftermath, or some good pasturage can be advan- tageously expected from clover - fields " because of its "extraordinarily heavy first crop and the free seeding ; The succeeding arti- cles on Clover, by Smith and Wing, together with the discussion under Meadows and under Green-
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