ON LIVE STOCK FOOD 



In the same way I produced a flve-leafed strain 

 of clover from a sport that appeared among plants 

 of the usual three-leafed type of white Dutch 

 clover. 



The four-leaved clover is of course well-known 

 as an occasional sport. A five-leafed clover will 

 appear in a lot of seedlings now and again, and 

 there will be found a few flve-leafed individuals 

 among the plants grown from seed of this sport. 

 It would, however, require many repetitions, 

 seemingly, to fix a five-leafed race, the tendency 

 to reversion to the familiar three-leafed type being 

 very pronounced. 



Whether the five-leafed condition acts as a 

 Mendelian unit character, is a matter that might 

 be of some interest to determine. 



Another anomaly consisted of a clover with 

 leaves beautifully colored — ^variegated in black, 

 brown, crimson, scarlet, yellow, white and green, 

 in different forms and figures, no two plants being 

 closely similar in the coloring of the leaves. This 

 plant was introduced as a new variety, but it did 

 not thrive in the Eastern States and has probably 

 been allowed to die out altogether. I have 

 another stock of this which came from chance 

 seedlings, but in no respect equal to the well-bred 

 type formerly possessed. 



One of the clovers found on my Sebastopol 



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