. Buist's almanac and garden manual for the year 1888 :b designed to furnish concise hints to cottagers, farmers and planters, on the cultivation of vegetables, with other useful information on gardening. Vegetables. £jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiii;:iiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiisiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiinu I 152 BUIST'S ALMANAC AND GARDEN MANUAL. LUCERNE, OR ALFALFA CLOVER. | [Aledicago sati-ia.) E The increasing demand for this valu- = able forage plant from all sections of our = country, and especially from the South, has = induced us to give a few br
. Buist's almanac and garden manual for the year 1888 :b designed to furnish concise hints to cottagers, farmers and planters, on the cultivation of vegetables, with other useful information on gardening. Vegetables. £jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiii;:iiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiisiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiinu I 152 BUIST'S ALMANAC AND GARDEN MANUAL. LUCERNE, OR ALFALFA CLOVER. | [Aledicago sati-ia.) E The increasing demand for this valu- = able forage plant from all sections of our = country, and especially from the South, has = induced us to give a few brief hints for its = culture. Lucerne, or Alfalfa Clover, is a = perennial plant, and when once properly = seeded in suitable soil, will produce fine E crops for several years. It has a remark- E ably strong growth, occasioned by its roots E penetrating the ground to a gieat depth, E until they are altogether out of reach of E drought; and in the very driest and most E sultry weather, when evei-y blade of grass E droops for want of moisture. Lucerne ap- E pears in growth; and for this E reason it is very desirable for all tropical E countries. Its cultivation is simple, requir- = ing no niuie care and attention than a crop E of the ordinary red clover, excepting the E first year, in preparing the soil and seeding; E the ground should be thoroughly mellowed E and prepared by clean and careful tillage, E the seed sown with any grain crop in either E Spring or Autumn, or as a separate crop, E at the rale of teai or twelve pounds E per acre, and the .second year it will E become thoroughly established; it E delights in deeps loamy soil, with E a sand or gravel subsoil, but will E I not succeed well on stitT, clayey ground, or on soil that is not properly drained; | I the proper time to cut it for either hay or feeding grain is just before com- ^ E ing into bloom, as it is then in its perfection, and makes a very delicate = E and desirable feed, being relished by all kind
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