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HEJRBAGE PLANTS. 



Clover. The cultivation of clover, and other 

 herbage plants, is indispensable in the manage- 

 ment of an arable or grain farm. Upon land 

 which is not so rich as to allow of being con- 

 stantly under tillage, but requires what we may 

 term rest, by being for a short interval in pas- 

 turage, Clover, Lucern, Saintfoin, &c. are 

 plants which the farmer finds greatly to his 

 interest to cultivate. The clover family is 

 numerous. 



I give you a representation of two sorts, 

 Meadow Clover, and White Clover. Meadow 

 clover resembles red clover, which I have not 

 described in this little work, but it is of a paler 



