. Cox's seed annual. Seed industry and trade Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Catalogs. r 24 THOS. A. COX & CO., SAN Red Clover. Red Clover. This invalu- able plant may justly be placed at the head of the list, by its judi- cious use lands which have been exhausted by too severe a course of cropping may be brought back to their pristine fertility, and fresher and inexhausted fields pre- served in undiminished vigor. It succeeds on any soil of moderate 'i fertility if sufficiently dry; may ; be sown in aut
. Cox's seed annual. Seed industry and trade Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Catalogs. r 24 THOS. A. COX & CO., SAN Red Clover. Red Clover. This invalu- able plant may justly be placed at the head of the list, by its judi- cious use lands which have been exhausted by too severe a course of cropping may be brought back to their pristine fertility, and fresher and inexhausted fields pre- served in undiminished vigor. It succeeds on any soil of moderate 'i fertility if sufficiently dry; may ; be sown in autumn or winter at ; the South, or in the North upon the snow, immediatelyprevious to its disappearance, by which the seed is distributed with regularity, and carried down into the crev- ices of the soil. A dressing of one bushel of gypsum per acre will immensely increase the clover crop. From fifteen to twenty pounds of good seed is required for an acre, more being necessary on old or stiff soils than on new and lighter ones. Lb., 20c; 100 lbs., $ White Dutch Clover. Ah excellent pasturage grass, forming, in conjunction with the Kentucky Blue Grass, the finest and most nutritious food for sheep and cows. Its flowers are also a favorite resort for the honey- bee. It succeeds ori all rich clayey lands if not too wet. Sow ten pounds per acre. Lb., 35c; 100 lbs., $ A lsike. or Swedish Clover (Trifolium hybrida). The most hardy of clovers. It resists the severest cold or extremes, or drouth and wet, yields large crops of superior hay, and may be cut several times in a season on rich soils. It produces superior pasturage much liked by cattle. It is well suited to sowing on lands liable to wash, as its long, fibrous roots spread over a wide area, and so interlace and hold the soil as to resist the heaviest rains. Can be planted on any soil; stalk fine and palatable. Its blossom-heads are round, somewhat resembling white clover in shape; flesh-colored; very sweet and fragran
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