94 ALASKYE CLOVEE. 



The plant bears a greater resemblance to the white 

 than the red clover, and may be described as the 

 giant white clover, with flesh-colored heads. The 

 advantages it possesses over every other variety of 

 clover are : Its perrennial or permanent character ; 

 its hardiness, for no winter will kill it ; its capability 

 alike of resisting the extremes of drpiight and wet ; 

 the much greater weight of herbage it produces dur- 

 ing the season, and the certainty of a plant when all 

 others fail. Its powers of production are inexhaust- 

 able, and improved by the wonderfully curious for- 

 mation of the plant, from the single crown of which 

 innumerable heads are continually being produced 

 all through the season, and tillering out laterally over 

 the ground. The hardy nature of the plant is proved 

 ^by the fact of its thriving by transplanting. A single 

 plant may be taken up aTid divided into ten or more 

 parts, the fibrous roots j ust cropped, and each part 

 will produce a luxuriant plant, so that no farmer 

 need ever hereafter have a patchy piece of clover. 

 In England 12 lbs. of seed is used per acre, if sown 

 as a separate crop. , 



The Canada Farmer says of Alsyke Clover : It 

 should be sown in the spring, with wheat or barley, 

 in precisely the same manner as red clover. When 

 allowed to ripen its seed, it cannot be cut more than 

 once in a season, as it bears its seeds with the first 

 "blossom in each year ; but if it is grown for a hay 

 «rop, it can be cut again in the fall, and will yield a 

 nice lot of tine hay for calves and sheep. Its effect 

 on the ground is nearly tlie same as that of ordinary 

 xed clover, and perhaps is still more paralleled by 

 the small white clover. The most prominent advan- 

 tages of the Alsyke Clover over the common red va- 



