LUTHER BURBANK 



othy in most regions, and in some regions as 

 herd's grass. 



It may be of interest to recall Ihat each name 

 is merely borrowed from the name of the man 

 who was instrumental in introducing this particu- 

 lar grass; one man being Timothy Hanson or 

 Hanse, of Maryland, who is said to have brought 

 the seed from England in 1720; the other being 

 John Herd, who is alleged to have found the grass 

 growing wild in a swamp in New Hampshire as 

 early as 1700. 



One of these men distributed the grass through 

 Virginia and Carolina, the other through New 

 England and New York. 



From these regions it has spread in every 

 direction, proving adaptable to all climates and 

 soils, until it assumes pre-eminence in the pasture 

 and hay-field quite unchallenged except by mem- 

 bers of the clover family, with which it is com- 

 monly associated. 



The clovers, to be sure, are not grasses in the 

 technical sense of the word. Nor, indeed, have 

 they the appearance of grasses even to the eye of 

 the most casual observer. But they rival the 

 grasses in their importance as fodder plants. In 

 certain regards, as for instance in the amount of 

 protein they bear, they outrival the grasses. Also 

 in their capacity to produce successive crops in 



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