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possibly in an exaggerated degree ; and care- 
ful selection from year to year, keeping the 
plants in a corner by themselves, might lead 
to some interesting results, especially if the 
tendency were further stimulated by enrichment 
of soil, to which the clover responds vigor- 
ously. 
My experience with " clover luck " has been 
considerable. I believe I have found almost 
every possible eccentric combination of which the 
plant is naturally capable, a few of which I have 
here pictured. 
My best success has been met in the " rowen " 
fields, or the growth after mowing, the energy of 
the plant, thus pruned as it were in its prime, 
finding immediate expression in an exuberance 
of luxuriant foliage, which, I think, inclines to 
a multiplication of leaves. I once sat down 
beside such a clump upon which I had discov- 
ered a single "four-leaf," and by dint of pluck- 
ing and examining every leaf in the cluster, 
succeeded in obtaining thirty - nine specimens. 
" Why not make it forty while you are about 
it?" a friend of mine recently remarked, with 
evident incredulity. Well, I tried to, but after 
grubbing up the last embryo leaf at the ground, 
thirty -nine was my limit all from one plant. 
The collection might be subdivided as follows : 
Four leaves, 22; five leaves, 7; six leaves, 3; 
