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For a Succession, 
the following will be found most serviceable. Italian 
crimson clover (Zrzfolzum incarnatum) is an excellent 
honey plant used for early greenmeat, flowering generally 
in May, but can be sown to give a good succession. 
White or Dutch clover would follow at 15th of June till 
first week in July. Alsike follows white, which will keep 
up the succession till: Melilot is in full flower at the end of 
July, the latter remaining in bloom as late as desirable. 
Trifolium Incarnatum, 
to give the best results for honey-production, should be 
sown with Melilotus Alba in August or September. The 
following Spring will see a grand supply for the bees, 
the crimson clover flowering from May to June, when the 
crop should be cut. The Melilot will soon follow and 
keep the bees busy for several weeks. This second crop 
can be allowed to stand and re-seed the ground, if a 
yearly crop following is required. 
Trifolium incarnatum has of late years been highly 
extolled by American bee-keepers who seem only recently 
to have discovered its value, though a correspondent 
writing to the American Bee Journal of October, 1895, 
says he, has been most successful with it, and considers it 
one of the most valuable crops that can be grown. The 
following advantages are claimed for it by the same 
writer :— 
“Tt grows in the winter, and prevents the land washing. 
It yields more abundantly than common red clover, a 
kind of forage which horses and cattle prefer to almost 
any other. According to the report of the Experiment 
Stations its nutritive value is of the highest. I know that 
my horses keep in the best condition on it. It never 
causes “slobbering,” as red clover often does. It can be 
