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for the scythe, it yields a quantity of excellent 

 feed. 



Cowgrass, in Berks, Oxon, Hants, and a, few other 

 Counties, means a Perennial variety giving only one 

 cutting per annum, coming into bloom fourteen or 

 twenty-one days after other Eed and having a solid 

 stem (though this peculiarity is not invariable). Grown 

 for seed it gives on an average three cwts. per acre. 



Single-cut Cowgrass. — One grower says it produces 

 very large crop on good land. He has had it so 

 luxurious as to measure five feet long, but in such 

 cases it exhausts itself in one season. 



Dr. Masters, r.E.S., thinks English Ked and Single- 

 cut Cowgrass are same species, i.e., both might have been 

 developed from, the same stock, — but, as to Trifolium 

 medium he does not believe it could have sprung from 

 the same stock, (See " Improvements of the Plants of 

 the Farm," Journal of Royal Agricultv/ral Society of 

 England, vol. xx.) 



ilr. James Hunter thinks Single-cut Cowgrass only 

 a variety of Ked Clover, which flowers about three 

 weeks later than the common species, and would be 

 more correctly named Late-flowering Eed Clover. 



Trifolium medium. 



{Marl-Clover or Cowgrass, sometimes called Zigzag Clover.) 



This is the true Cowgrass of Botany, but does not 

 exist in the trade. It is not cultivated, and only found 

 in a wild state and in botanical collections. Has zigzag 

 stems, and the flower-heads are usually two inches 

 distant from the uppermost set of leaves. As pointed 



