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respects, as Florida, Southern Texas, New Mexico 

 and Arizona, it may have an important mission. It 

 may yet be grown in these areas, or some of them, 

 where irrigation is practiced in conjunction with 

 cotton, or with certain of the cereals. If it can be 

 thus grown, it will prove of much value, as it would 

 only occupy the land when not occupied by the crops 

 usually grown in summer, and it would bring much 

 fertility to the same, in addition to the forage pro- 

 vided. Since in Tunis it has been found that the 

 plants have not been killed by cold 2° below zero 

 and in Algiers 9" below that point, the hope would 

 seem to be justifiable that this clover may yet be 

 grown much further north than the States named. 

 If grown thus, however, it should not be as a sub- 

 stitute for alfalfa, but rather to occupy the ground 

 in winter when not producing otherwise. It may 

 yet be found that the Saida variety may have adap- 

 tation for some localities in the West where irriga- 

 tion cannot be practiced. This clover is not likely 

 to render any considerable service to any part of 

 Canada, because of the lack of adaptation in the 

 climate. 



Egyptian clover has highest adaptation for de- 

 posit soils, such as are made by the settling of silt 

 held in solution by waters that overflow. In these it 

 will grow with vigor, though they rest upon coarse 

 sand or even upon gravel not too near the surface. 

 Irrigating waters to some extent are necessary to 

 grow the plants in best form, although, as previ- 

 ously intimated, the Saida variety may yet be grown 

 without the aid of such waters. It is the first crop 



