. Grasses and forage plants. A practical treatise. Comprising their natural history comparative nutritive value; methods of cultivating, cutting, and curing; and the management of grass lands in the United States and British Provinces. Grasses; Forage plants. 188 WHITE CliOVEB. White Clover, Dutch Clovee, Honeysuckle {IH- folium repens), is equally commoii with the red, and often forms a very considerable portion of the sward or turf of pastures and fields of a tenacious and moist soil. Its stems ate spreading, slender, and creeping;. Fig. 15& TRiite Clover. Fig. 151. leaves inversely hear
. Grasses and forage plants. A practical treatise. Comprising their natural history comparative nutritive value; methods of cultivating, cutting, and curing; and the management of grass lands in the United States and British Provinces. Grasses; Forage plants. 188 WHITE CliOVEB. White Clover, Dutch Clovee, Honeysuckle {IH- folium repens), is equally commoii with the red, and often forms a very considerable portion of the sward or turf of pastures and fields of a tenacious and moist soil. Its stems ate spreading, slender, and creeping;. Fig. 15& TRiite Clover. Fig. 151. leaves inversely heart-shaped; flower-heads small, white; pods four-seeded; root perennial. Flowers from May to September. This plant is shown in Fig. 150. A magnified flower is seen in Pig. 151. White clover is widely diffused over this country and all the countries of Europe. It is indigenous probably both to England and America. When first cultivated from seed collected from wild plants, at the beginning of the last century, it was recorded of a farmer that he had " sowed the wild white clover which holds the ground and decays ; Its chief value is as a pas- ture grass, and it is as valuable for that purpose as the red clover is for hay or for soiling, though there are some who place a low estimate upon it. It easily accommodates itself to a great variety of soils, but grows most luxuriantly in moist grounds and moist or wet seasons. Indeed, it depends so much upon a general distribution of rains through the season, that when they are sufficiently abundant it comes in. 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 Flint, Charles Louis, 1824-1889; Flint, Charles Louis, 1824-1889. Practical treatise on grasses and forage plants. Boston, W. F. Gill
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