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arife from its fpringing fo late in the feafon) ; 

 but I never found it fuperior in any refpect to 

 red clover; nor do I think it near fo ufeful. 

 Red-clover, when made into hay, is excellent 

 food for all forts of animals. White-clover 

 grows only about two months with any degree 

 of vigour, and requires much warmth before it 

 fprings up. It will grow upon any foil -, for 

 all foils contain its feed. The barren commons 

 near Buxton in Derbymire, when limed, will 

 produce fine white clover : and we are fure 

 that no feed has been fown upon it except by 

 the hand of Providence ; for it is well-known 

 that lime paries through the fire before it is 

 ufed as manure, and confequently cannot con- 

 tain feed of white-clover or of any other plant* 

 The uncultivated land in North-America 

 abounds with white-clover. The earth, indeed, 

 feems to have been impregnated with its feed 

 from the creation ; as any kind of land, when 

 manured, will produce it. From curiofity, I took 

 a dry clod of clay, pounded and fifted ir, and 

 found white-clover feed. I then put the whole 

 of the pulverifed matter into a garden-pot, and 

 had the fatisfaclion of feeing white-clover fpring 

 up* Almoft every herb delights more in one 



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