. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. FiG. 91.—Broad, or Windsor bean {Vicia faba): {After Abel, Mary H.: Beans, Peasand other Legumes as Food. Farmers Bulletin 121, 1900, p. 6.) perature, and hence, its growth is confined to Florida and the Gulf coast,where it is used as a green manure and as a forage crop (Fig. 93). Manyof the species of vetch have been more or less extensively cultivated, and 14 lO PASTORAL AND AGKICULTUKAL BOTANY sev-eral others growing wild are used for hay, or pasturage, or in a fewcases the


. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. FiG. 91.—Broad, or Windsor bean {Vicia faba): {After Abel, Mary H.: Beans, Peasand other Legumes as Food. Farmers Bulletin 121, 1900, p. 6.) perature, and hence, its growth is confined to Florida and the Gulf coast,where it is used as a green manure and as a forage crop (Fig. 93). Manyof the species of vetch have been more or less extensively cultivated, and 14 lO PASTORAL AND AGKICULTUKAL BOTANY sev-eral others growing wild are used for hay, or pasturage, or in a fewcases the seeds are used as human foods. The cultivated kinds include. 92.—Flower of Leguminosse. A, floral diagram of Vicia faba; B. sweet peaflower, dissected, diagrammatic. {A . Robbins after Eichler, B after Bergen and Caldwell.)


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