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Kidney vetch is only used on the very lightest of land, 
which may also be said of lupins. Of the latter, it may, 
perhaps, be regarded as a cause for congratulation that the 
seed is known to but few indeed. This remark will be 
appreciated by many an agriculturist in the neighbourhood of 
Thetford Heath. 
In choosing seed the best that can be obtained will in the 
long run be found the cheapest, excepting, of course, fancy or 
show samples. It is our experience that the same value of 
the best seed produces a superior result to the same value of 
an inferior seed. A good, well ripened seed of rotund nature 
contains, as a rule, the most vitality, hence it not only produces 
the most fruitful plant, but also a seedling which will stand 
more hardship than one produced from a weaker seed. Little 
does the uninitiated think how easily his eye can be deceived 
in this respect. 
As an instance of this, the most pleasing, the most brilliant, 
and by far the most attractive sample of white clover to look 
at is that which has been cut before it is ripe; a brown sample, 
provided it be the brown of sunshine and ripeness, is far more 
valuable to the grower than the one last mentioned, but when 
the brownness has been produced by exposure to showers the 
result is different ; here it is that the field for judgment and 
the eye of the expert tells its tale. 
Red clover seed should be purple and round. Yellow seeds 
are not so good as brown, more especially when the former 
are flat in shape, and the seed of the red clover should come 
from a cold, exposed climate, the seed from a southern clime 
often leading to disappointment. This applies to most seeds 
which are best worked southward, as, indeed, is almost any- 
thing in nature, certainly in the vegetable world. 
In a sample of trefoil one must look out for the seed of the 
wild trefoil, which is an inferior seed, easily detected by its 
aroma. We would recommend buyers to give a preference to 
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