MISCELLANEOUS PLANTS. 22'J 



as trefoil, but this term is not sufficiently specific- 

 Nor is it to be confounded with hop clover (Trifo- 

 lium procumhens), although there is much of resem- 

 blance between the two plants. 



Yellow clover is perennial and recumbent in its 

 habit of growth. It does not make sufficient growth 

 to render it of much value for hay. But as a pas- 

 ture plant it is, to some extent at least, deserving of 

 a place in our agriculture. It bears seed profusely, 

 and as the season of bloom is prolonged when it is 

 pastured, this plant has much power to re-seed itself 

 and therefore to maintain its hold upon land where 

 it has been grown. 



Yellow clover has special adaptation for soils 

 well supplied with lime. On such soils it has in 

 some localities almost assumed the character of a 

 weed. But this can only happen in rainy climates. 

 It will also grow in gravelly soils where some of the 

 other varieties of clover would fail. The author 

 has met with it growing in great luxuriance in a 

 semi-wild condition on the coast of Puget Sound. 

 It also grows freely in several of the northern states 

 and of the provinces of the Dominion of Canada 

 that lie eastward from Lake Huron. And it is 

 probable that it may be grown with more or less 

 success in all, or nearly all, the tillable portions of 

 the United States and Canada. 



Where other and superior kinds of clover will 

 grow freely, it is not necessary to give much atten- 

 tion to yellow clover. But in permanent pastures, 

 even among superior sorts, it has a place, since it 

 comes on early in the season and grows vigorously, 

 and it is fine and leafy when young. But as sum- 

 mer advances it becomes woody and ceases to grow. 



