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winter climate is too cold for it. Some crops have 

 been grown successfully in the peach-producing 

 areas of Ontario contiguous to Lakes Erie and On- 

 tario, but even in these it is an uncertain crop. The 

 attempt has been made to grow it in some of the 

 provinces of Canada, and in several of the States, 

 by sowing the seed in the spring. Some fairly good 

 crops have been thus obtained, but usually not so 

 good as can be grown by sowing certain other vari- 

 eties of clover at the same season. It is but rea- 

 sonable to expect, however, that adaptation in grow- 

 ing crimson clover will widen with the acclimation 

 of the plant, and with increasing knowledge as to 

 its needs on the part of those who grow it. 



Soils. — Crimson clover though usually grown 

 for the enrichment of soils will not, as a rule, make 

 satisfactory growth on soils very low in the ele- 

 ments of fertility, whatsoever may be their compo- 

 sition or texture. On orchard lands liberally fer- 

 tilized, in the Middle Atlantic States, excellent crops 

 have been obtained, whereas on adjacent soils pre- 

 cisely similar they have failed. In the Southern 

 States, however, better results, relatively, will be 

 obtained from sowing this clover on comparatively 

 infertile lands, owing to the longer season which it 

 has for continuous growth. Where the winters are 

 possessed of considerable severity and when the pro- 

 tection of snow is more or less wanting, unless the 

 plants are strong when they enter the winter, they 

 are almost certain to perish. Loam soils with rea- 

 sonably porous subsoils are best adapted to its 

 growth. Of these, sandy loams have a higher adap- 



