June and Early July 



roadside. As I was gathering a few 

 never before having seen this species, I 

 was confident a woman came out from 

 the neighboring farm-house to tell me that 

 her husband had planted his clover-seed, 

 as usual, the previous spring, and had 

 been much amazed at the appearance of 

 this flaming crop. She was eager to 

 know if I could tell her what sort of 

 clover it was that yielded these unusual 

 blossoms. 



A careful search through my ' i Gray ' ' 

 left me quite in the dark. Every plant- 

 lover knows the sense of defeat that comes 

 with the acknowledgment that you can- 

 not place a flower, and will sympathize 

 with the satisfaction which I experienced 

 a few days later when, while reading in 

 - one of Mr. Burroughs's books an account 

 of a country walk in England, I found a 

 description of Trifolium incarnatum, a 

 clover common on the other side but al- 

 most unknown here, that exactly tallied 

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