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PASTURES AND PASTURE PLANTS 



CHAP. 



roots of which penetrate into and draw their nourishment from Clover roots. 

 Infested fields should at once be sown down with grass seeds. 



There appears to be no difference in the persistence or duration of the 

 forms of Red clover. On many markets extra-fine samples are designated 

 Cow-grass. 



GEintliNATiNG L)UDDEK, WITH THJ^EAD-LIKE STEM FIXING ON 

 SEEDLING ClO\ER. 



(Ten times natural size.) 



Broom, or CloveRj Rape. 



Orobanche minor, growing on Clover Root. 



(About g natural size.) 



Clover Dodder. 

 Citscitta Trifolii, growing on Clover. 

 (Twice natural size.) 



White or Dutch Clover [Trifolium repeals). — Perennial, with solid, 

 creeping stems, which produce surface-roots at the nodes ; coming into flower 

 in May. As compared with Red clover, this valuable " bottom-herbage " 

 plant, which grows in all pastures, is less productive, more nutritive and 

 lasting, and less sensitive to climatic influences. Though resisting drought 

 well, owing to the length of the central tap-root, and destroyed by stagnant 

 water, it is adapted for irrigation in well-drained land, and vegetates most 

 luxuriantly in warm, moist situations, in moderately firm marls, clays, and 



