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to its larger size and greater luxuriance. It is one of the 

 plants recommended to be sown to the extent of from 

 1 to 3J lb. per imperial acre, for permanent pastures, for 

 permanent lawn pastures ; for marshy grounds ; and to the 

 extent of from 3 to 8 lb. in the same measure of ground for 

 alternate husbandry. A bushel of the seeds averages 64 lb. 

 and the number of seeds in an ounce reaches 1 6,000. 



Trifolium pratense perenne, Cow-grass or Perennial Ked 

 Clover. Cow-grass is a more permanent variety than the com- 

 mon red clover. It grows naturally in dry pastures, and 

 answers well when sown with the permanent grasses, and for 

 alternate husbandry when two crops of pasture are taken. It 

 is one of the plants recommended to be sown, to the extent of 

 from 1 lb. to 3 lb. per imperial acre, for alternate husbandry, 

 for permanent pasture, for permanent lawn pastures, for 

 permanent pasture and hay in orchards and other grounds 

 much overshadowed by trees, for improved deep mossy 

 ground intended to be kept in grass. A bushel of the seeds 

 averages 64 lb., and the number of seeds in an ounce comes up 

 to 16,000. 



Trifolium repens, White or Dutch Clover. The white or 

 Dutch clover is a fibrous-rooted and creeping-stemmed peren- 

 nial. It flowers throughout the summer. Each flower is on 

 a footstalk, which becomes recurved after flowering, and then 

 all the legumes are drooping and covered with the withered 

 brown corollas. This trefoil is in great request for pastures. 

 It grows naturally in dry pastures and moors. When too 

 abundant in a pasture it has a tendency to scour cattle. Such 

 a superabundance should be guarded against for this reason, as 

 well as because it occupies the ground that might be more ad- 

 vantageously filled with better pasture-grasses. It does not, 

 however, affect the bowels of sheep. It is one of the plants re- 

 commended to be sown, to the extent of from 2 lb. to 7 lb. per 



