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differ largely in their character of growth, the fifth 

 having a white blossom, and makes but a feeble 

 growth in our climate. There is an Egyptian 

 clover, the seed of which closely resembles the scar- 

 let, and it will not withstand freezing. The seed is 

 imported and many have doubtless purchased it, 

 and failure following, crimson clover is condemned. 



" It is an annual, grows best in a cool season, and 

 should be sown only for autumn growth. The ob- 

 ject in growing this plant should be to improve the 

 soil by the nitrogen that it will gather from the 

 atmosphere, to keep the soil covered, especially dur- 

 ing the winter, save the loss of nitrate, and to add 

 organic matter or humus so much needed in the soil 

 of all our older States. 



" For two years we have had nearly seventy acres 

 of crimson clover, with entire success. Ten pounds 

 of seed per acre will make a heavy covering. The 

 seed should be put on all cultivated and autumn 

 gathered crops. We sow with buckwheat freely 

 first. After the buckwheat is cut it grows until 

 winter, making an abundance of plant food for oats 

 the following spring. In the last cultivation of corn 

 and potatoes, about July loth, the seed is applied 

 and cultivated in. Cultivation in the apple, pear, 

 and cherry orchards is stopped near July isth. Seed 

 is applied upon all these. Vineyard culture ceases 

 by July 2oth, when they are seeded. . . . 



" Crimson clover should not be sown in the North 

 with the expectation of its coming through the fol- 

 lowing spring, while it will o ccasionally, but with 



