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Crifolium pratense. Natura Orver: Leguminose— Pulse Family. 
NOWN more commonly, from one variety, as the Red Clover, 
this three-leaved product of the meadow (whence its scientific 
" name) is, next to common grass, the most useful plant to the 
husbandman for the feeding of his cattle; and of it they are 
exceedingly fond. It is usually grown as a mixture in with 
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Z aR ing taste, and know as well as we that “variety is the spice of life.” 
The blossoms are fragrant, and are very enticing to bees and butter- 
flies as well as other honey-loving insects. 
Qudustry. 
IKE clocks, one wheel another on must drive — 
Affairs by diligent labor only thrive. —Chapman. 
ND cheerfully she plodded through The coward wolf might fly; 
Her many household cares; And train’d the woodbines higher yet 
And led the flock her father left, Upon the cottage wall, 
To feed upon the hill; And pruned the roses, where they grew, 
And guided them at sunset . So sweet and fresh and tall; 
To the bubbling silver rill; And planted flowers and strawberries, 
And put them safe in fold at night, In her small plot of ground, 
And left the watch-dog nigh, And painted all the railing green, 
That at his honest, angry bark That fenced her garden ’round. 
—Mrs. Norton, 
FT did the harvest to the sickle yield, 
Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe hath broke; 
How jocund did they drive their teams afield, 
How bow’d the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. 
—Gray. 
HORTLY his fortune shall be lifted higher; BSENCE of occupation is not rest, 
True industry doth kindle honor’s fire. A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. 
f \ — Shakespeare. — Cowper. 
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