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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; 



