406 



PASTURAGE AND OVEBSTOCKIXU. 



If cut early to be used as forage, it blooms later than white 

 clover and till frost. It is a biennial. 



The yellow or offleinal sweet clover is an annual and yields 

 considerable honey also. (Fig. 162.) 





Pig. 161. 



SWEET CLOVEE. 



Melilotus Alba. 

 (From Vilmorin-Andrieux, Paris.) 



The different varieties of smart-weeds (Persicaria), golden- 

 rod, buctn'heat, asters, iron-weed, Spanish-needles in low 

 lands and marshy places, give a very abundant honey-crop 

 in the latter part of the Summer. They form the bulk of 

 what is called the "Fall crop" in this latitude. 



