. A history of the vegetable kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. Illus. by several hundred figures. Botany; Botany, Economic; 1855. HOP TREPOIIi. 819 this country. It is less liardy than red clover, requiting three or four years before it attains its full growth, thus becoming less adapted for pro- fitable cropping in the rotations of English farming. The yellow or Swiss lucern (), is a coarser and much more hardy plant than the other. The soil suited for the g
. A history of the vegetable kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. Illus. by several hundred figures. Botany; Botany, Economic; 1855. HOP TREPOIIi. 819 this country. It is less liardy than red clover, requiting three or four years before it attains its full growth, thus becoming less adapted for pro- fitable cropping in the rotations of English farming. The yellow or Swiss lucern (), is a coarser and much more hardy plant than the other. The soil suited for the growth of lucern should be dry and friable, and rather sandy, but good and deep. The climate requires to be warm and dry. The seed should be sown early in the spring months. From fifteen to twenty pounds per acre of broad-cast, is the quantity usually required. The mowing, ftc. of this plant is the same as that used for clover. According to Sir H. Davy, the nutritive qualities of the plant are two and three tenths percent.; and are to that of the clovers and saint-foin as twenty-three to thirty-nine. Hop Trefoil, (medicago lupulina,) is by some considered the shamrock of the Irish. It very nearly resembles the common yellow clover, but is larger than that plant, and is a perennial, while the clover is an annual. LiQUOEiOB (Glyoyrhizaglabra). This is a per- ennial deep-rooted plant, with herbaceous stalks, four to five feet in height, pinnated alternate leaves, and small blue, violet, white, or purplish papilionaceous flowers, disposed in axillary heads or spikes. It belongs to the natural order Legv- minosce, and to the class diadelphia, and order decandria of Liquorice. Liquorice is a native of the south of Europe, and appears to have been cultivated in England since the time of Elizabeth. The chief places where it was long reared in any quantity for sale, were Pontefi'act in Yorkshire, Worksop in Nottinghamshire, and Godalming in Surrey. It is now, however, raised b
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