238 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FARM 
tion for subsequent crops. 
Most other crops deplete 
the soil, but the clovers 
enrich it, and restore its 
fertility. 
a. The clovers also furnish 
> the finest of the honey 
”  crop—especially white 
clover, which fills the land 
with the fragrance of its 
nectar in June. Among 
“ them are excellent soil- 
Fic. 86. White clover. (This and other binders for holding togeth- 
pared by Miss Olive No Tuttle forthe book, et the surface layers of 
eroding hill slopes; excel- 
tent cover-crops for the orchard in the 
dry season; and excellent plants for the 
lawn and the fence-row. 
And besides all these very practical 
matters, there is their beauty! Crimson 
clover, red clover, white clover—what 
neatness and elegance of design in the 
single sprays; what beauty of leaf form; 
what freshness of flowers! Andin mass, 
also, they give fine landscape effects— 
the red outspread over the plain like a 
carpet of roses; the white sprinkled 
over the green hills like flakes of 
fugitive snow. 
All the clovers are deep-rooting herbs 
that grow in spreading tufts and bear 
trifoliate leaves, having stipules at the 
base of the leaf-stalk. They have small 
flowers in clusters, and short, few-seeded rig. 87. Red clover. 
