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blooms all through June into July. Both of these should 

 be sown early in spring with timothy, five or six pounds of 

 seed to the acre, in the same manner that red clover seed is 

 sown. By cutting Alsike clover just as it commences to bloom 

 it may be made to come into blossom the second time, so as 

 just to fill the vacant space in August. This is a very im- 

 portant fact, and may well be acted upon. 



Sweet clover, yeUow, and white, Mdibtus officinalis (Fig. 

 136) and Melilotm alba, are well named. They bloom from 

 the middle of June to the first of October. Their perfume 

 scents the air for long distances, and the hum of bees that 

 throng their flowers is like music to the apiarist's ear. The 

 honey, too, is just exquisite. These clovers are biennial, not 

 blooming the first season, and dying after they bloom the sec- 

 ond season. They perpetuate themselves, however, through 

 the seed so as to really become perennial. A disagreeable fact 

 is that they have little value except for honey. It is as- 

 serted by some that they give fair pasturage for stock and are 

 excellent for soiling and green manuring. They are said to 

 become pernicious weeds if allowed to spread. The Bokhara 

 clover is only a variety of the above, though Mr. D. A. Jones 

 thinks it quite superior to the others. 



The other clovers — lucerne, yellow trefoil, scarlet trefoil, 

 and alfalfa — have not proved of any value with us, perhaps 

 owing to locality. 



