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of the country. Of the former the green pea, the large yellow 

 and white, find the most favor. In good olden times no garden 

 was without a patch of this nourishing and wholesome pulse, 

 which, together with beans and haricot, in some shape found its 

 way on the daily table. The introduction of the potato and coffee 

 plant had greatly diminished their production. We are sorry 

 to see this nutritious, palatable diet fall into disrepute, and yield 

 to exotics less suited to support the physical and mental powers 

 of a working man. Their mode of culture in this region is 

 nothing remarkable, and in quality and color are much inferior 

 to those that grow on the river Thames in Canada. 



They grow vetches, with clover and oats. With the latter, 

 peas enter much into the composition, and as green food they are 

 highly esteemed in dairy husbandry. 



Buckwheat, grown in artic and temperate climates, is very 

 scantily raised in this land. While this plant is flowering a cold 

 wet storm often destroys the hopes of the husbandman. The crop 

 fails so often to come to an average yield the farmer hesitates to 

 sow it. As a green manure it is cut down at the height of twenty 

 inches ; it stands deservedly high. The grain is nutritious, and 

 greedily devoured by the domestic animals, but seldom made an 

 article of human food. 



Clover, both red and white, are great favorites of the farmer. 

 Mineral manure is scattered on the red clover, and where soil and 

 climate favor, it grows luxuriously, and 1 have known it mowed 

 four times during the season. 



White clover grows often on perpetual and natural meadows.* 

 It has a sweet and flagrant smell and taste, on the declivities of 

 the mountains. It feeds swarms of bees, and gives that sweet 

 and aromatic flavor to the grass grown on the head waters of the 

 Soane, renowned for fine butter and cheese. 



Lucerne grows in the mild regions of Switzerland; it thrives 

 best about the lakes of the country, and a meadow of it can be 

 kept from 10 to 15 years, and when mown before it is in full 



