1861. 



NEW EXGLAXD FARMER. 



25 



THE CHIMSOK" CLOVEK. 



Trifolium Incaenatum. 

 Early in November, a gentleman residing in 

 Canton kindly brought us a specimen of this 

 beautiful and fragrant plant, the first we had ever 

 seen, and \/e were so much j^leased with it, as to 

 ask for a perfect specimen, which we have had 

 sketched and engraved, and present the reader 

 to-day. The sketching is truthfully made, while 

 the engraving is artistically done, and of course 

 attractive. If Ave could add the color and fra- 

 grance of the flower it would be complete. 





In presenting some perfect specimens of the 

 plant, the gentleman who called our attention to 

 it addressed to us the following note : — 



Mr. Editor : — I send herewith a couple of 

 stalks of what I believe to be the "Trifolium In- 

 carnatnm," or Crimson Clover. One authority 

 says : " The crimson clover is now gi"own for 

 soiling and hay, and is a beautiful Italian plant, 

 sometimes cultivated as a border flower. Much 

 attention is given to its cultivation at present in 

 Scotland. Fulton's experiments in growing crim- 

 son clover attracted s])ecial attention from the 

 members of the Highland Agricultural Society. 

 A large crop was grown from seed sown by Mr. 

 Fulton on land from which a crop of early po- 

 tatoes had just been taken. Three months after 



it was sown, on Oct. 17, the yield was 2^ tons per 

 imperial acre. He arrived at the following con- 

 clusion : 



It is highly valuable as a secondary crop after 

 early potatoes. It is an excellent intermediate 

 crop to precede turnips. 



It will withstand severe weather if well estab- 

 lished before frost. 



It produces an excellent crop of forage much 

 relished by all the live stock of the farm. 



Coming early to the scythe as a summer crop, 

 10 or 12 weeks after sowing, it may be produced 

 very early in the season if wanted for stock." 



The accompanying specimens were found near 

 my house, in South Canton, where the seed was 

 probably first sown by a former occupant as a 

 garden flower. It grows quite luxuriantly, and at 

 this late season, Nov. 2nd, while all other clover 

 in the same field is withered, this is in full bloom, 

 presenting, with its Crimson flowers, a beautiful 

 appearance. Yours, truly, 



J. Mason Everett. 



Boston, Nov. 2, 1860. 



We learn from a gentleman in the town of Con- 

 cord, that a paper of the seed of this plant was 

 sent him from the Patent Office, several years 

 since, which he sowed on the edge of a corn-fleld. 

 It grew luxuriantly, and while the corn was being 

 harvested several horses and colts found their 

 way to it, and were found quite reluctant to leave 

 it. The gentleman gathered a large basket of 

 the plants in the hope of saving the seeds, but 

 they proved not to be suflficiently matured. The 

 horses and colts were so attracted by it that thej- 

 leaped the fences and fed it so closely that none 

 of it appeared again. 



English Fruit. — I attended one of the largest 

 fruit exhibitions in the country at the Crystal 

 Palace in London. The apples were not worth 

 looking at. Pears about middling. Plums and 

 nectarines very fine. Hot-house grapes were re- 

 markably good, and a few fair looking peaches 

 grown under glass, also some things they call 

 melons, which would do very well to feed the 

 pigs with in America. The fruits in England, 

 this year, are not high-flavored, but poor and in- 

 sipid. The sun does not shine hot enough there 

 to grow good-flavored fruit, but they are not 

 troubled with worms in the fruit, as we are. — D. 

 C. Richmond, in Ohio Cultivator. 



How TO Make a Cement for Stoves. — Take 

 fine salt one part, and two parts of fresh hard 

 wood ashes, mix well together, then take cold wa- 

 ter, and mix into a mortar. Apply to the crack 

 either warm or cold, and you will find a cement 

 which will answer all common purposes, and found 

 to be very useful where the stove-pipe joints are 

 not as tight as is desirable. 



Still Another. — Take iron filings, and mix 

 to about the consistency of putty lor glazing, 

 with white lead and linseed oil. Fill in the joints 

 as securely as possible, while the stove is cold, 

 and let it stand a day or two before using. — Rural . 

 New-Yorker. 



