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red and white there are earlier and later sorts which 

 may be useful for succession. 



4. Trifolium hybridum — Alsike Clover— has, per- 

 haps, got its specific name from possessing appear- 

 ances and qualities intermediate between the broad- 

 leaf and the Dutch clovers. This species has been 

 introduced from Sweden, and its growth, duration, and 

 feeding qualities certainly entitle it to rank high, and 

 more especially for growth on some of the stronger 

 soils. In our experience we have not found it to 

 possess such eminent perennial habits as have been 

 claimed for it. It thins very much after the second 

 year, and almost disappears in three years, unless it 

 be renovated by being allowed to seed, when the new 

 plants by no means attain to the vigour of their 

 parents. 



5. Trifolium fragiferum — Strawberry-headed Clover 

 — has been named from the strawberry-like form which 

 its head, of enlarged coloured calyxes, assumes after 

 flowering ; its flowers are pinkish, but otherwise of 

 much the same size and form as those of the Dutch 

 clover, which latter it again approaches in its creeping 

 habit and form of its foliage. It is, however, here 

 mentioned only to point out the difference of its 

 habits and indications when compared with the 

 Dutch or white clover. The strawberry trefoil is a 

 native of cold wet pastures, such as bear the name of 

 "hungry clays;" when present in quantity it 4s not 

 to be confounded with Dutch clover, which would 

 indicate a sound fertile soil. 



6. Trifolium repens — White Dutch Clover — is a 

 plant of very general cultivation, both at home and in 

 the States, and in both of which quarters of the globe 

 it maintains its character with great constancy. 



