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SO than the other clovers, and its yield is always 

 very much less. For lawn and pasture purposes 

 it is of great value because of its perennial character 

 and its creeping habit, which enables it to closely 

 cover the soil and occupy all the spaces left vacant 

 by other plants. It furnishes tender, nutritious pas- 

 turage and in lawns gives a close, dark-green, vel- 

 vety growth. It flowers and fruits abundantly 

 wherever it grows. 



YELLOW CLOVER.— This plant is sometimes 

 called black medic. At other times it is spoken of 

 as trefoil, but this term is not sufficiently specific. 

 Nor is it to be confounded with hop clover, although 

 there is much of resemblance between the two 

 plants. Yellow clover is perennial and recumbent 

 in its habit of growth. It does not make sufficient 

 growth to render it of much value for hay. But as 

 a pasture plant it is, to some extent at least, deserv- 

 ing of a place in our agriculture. It bears seeds 

 profusely, and as the season of bloom is prolonged 

 when it is pastured, this plant has much power to 

 reseed itself and therefore to maintain its hold upon 

 land where it has been grown. 



Yellow clover has special adaptation for soils well 

 supplied with lime. On such soils it has in some 

 localities almost assumed the character of a weed. 

 But this can only happen in rainy climates. It will 

 also grow in gravelly soils, where some of the other 

 varieties of clover would fail. It grows freely in 

 several of the Northern states. It is probable that 

 it may be grown with more or less success in all, 

 or nearly all, the tillable portions of the United 

 States. Where other and superior kinds of clover 

 will grow freely, it is not necessary to give much 

 attention to yellow clover. But in permanent pas- 



