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the touch than ordinary hay — if the ^Yeather be fair and dry usually 

 by the third or fourth day. 



TrifoUion repens — White Clover — Dutch Clover — Honey- 

 suckle. This is a very hardy perennial species, everywhere com- 

 mon and in some years very abundant. It is a valuable plant in 

 pastures, adding considerably both to the amount and quality of the 

 herbage. It is not much cultivated for hay, but in many fields of 

 tenacious and moist soil, it gives a thick bottom -which materially 

 increases the crop ; most abundant in moist seasons, often appearing 

 in a wet year where it had not been observed before. This plant 

 richly deserves a far greater degree of attention from the farmers of 

 Maine than it has yet received. 



TrifoUum hyhridum — Hybrid, Alsike or Swedish Clover. Of 

 this variety I cannot speak from personal knowledge, it having been 

 brought to my notice, not long since, by the late Dr. Cuming, Yet. 

 Surgeon, of St. John, and known to readers of previous Reports, as 

 a valuable contributor, and whose acquaintance with scientific and 

 practical agriculture was both extensive and intimate. He spoke 

 of it as being of comparatively recent introduction into Scotland 

 when he left ; as rapidly coming into favor wherever tried, and that 

 not unlikely it might prove a valuable acquisition in New England. 

 It has long been cultivated in Sweden, and is strongly recommended 

 by writers, for cold, moist and stiff soils. It resembles the common 

 red clover in duration, hight and mode of growth. It has been 

 said to last fifteen or twenty years, which is an error arising from 

 the facility with which it sows itself when -the flowers are left to 

 mature. It is usually mown once for hay, and then left for pastur- 

 age. The stems are hollow, not creeping, but spreading unless 

 sown close. It blooms profusely, the flowers resembling those of 

 white clover, but larger and of a rose color mixed with white, and 

 turning downwards, as they fade. They emit a sweet, agreeable 

 odor, and afford an excellent forage for bees. The seed has been 

 recently disseminated by the Patent OGico, but what success has 

 attended it, I do not learn. 



In a publication issued by the Canadian Board of Agriculture, 

 there is a communication from Mr. Patrick K. Wright of Coburg, 

 under date of February, 1858, from which the following is taken : 



" Having had enquiry made by several of my friends, who were 



