?^ , MINUTES OF 



i* - On Artificial Grasses. 



*i. 



,TuE time for cutting those two grasses, is when they are in full flower, and 

 rather ohewing evidences of declining. 



V. 1. Trifolium Repens. Creeping Trefoil, or White Clover, 



2. Trifoeium Procumbens. Procumbent, or Hop Trefoil, 



1. Of Creeping Trefoil, or JFhite Clover. 



Trefoil with umbellar heads, four-seed'ed legumes, and creeping stem. 



Perennial, ilowering from May to September. 



•^PtooT fibrose, stems prostrate, creeping, widely spread, ramose at the base, 

 leafy, smooth. Leaves on longish foot-stalks; leaflets obcordate, denticulated, 

 smooth, often spotted with brown and white. Foot-stalks ascending or erect, very 

 long, many-flowered, umbellated. Flowers white, sometimes flesh-coloured, up- 

 right, becoming pendulous after flowering. Calyx ten-nerved, smooth. Corol 

 permanent. Legume covered by the corol, oblong, smooth, three or four-seeded. 



It varies in a more fertile and moist soil in having a suberect and more bran- 

 chy stem, but is always very distinct from the trifolium hybridum of LinnEeus, 



Triis is the sweetest grass for all sorts qf stock yet known, and makes the 

 closest sward, and is very productive of foliage. Hence it is most peculiarly adapt- 

 ed to laying down land to pasture. It flourishes most upon rich, dry, warm soils; ^ 

 yet it will accommodate itself to most kinds. It is seldom sown alone, unless it be 

 to raise the seed, nor should it ever be mown for hay. In laying down rich soils 

 Avhich are intended to remain in pasture for many years, this seed should pre- 

 dominate. ' 



'2. Of Procumbent Trefoil. 



Trefoil with oval imbricated spikes, deflected, permanent, furrowed stan- 

 dards, procumbent stems, and obovate leaflets. -' 



Perennial, flowering in June and July. 



Root thickish, short, fibrose. Stems procumbent, widely spread, slightly 

 branched, hairy, ascending at the tips. Leaflets obovate, denticulate, subglauces- 

 cent, smooth. Stipules semiovate, very entire, nervose, ciliate. Spikes axillary, 



