Prof. W. J. Beal, of Michigan Agricultural College, says: 
White clover is a fickle plant, coming and going with the varyingseasons, It often 
burns out in hot weather. An old, hard road, once abandoned, is likely to send up 
4 white clover in advance of the grasses. It is a well-known and highly prized bee- 
plant. It is often sown with some of the finer grasses for lawns. 
This is a native perennial species, growing about a foot high; long runners are sent 
out from the base, which are procumbent at first, becoming erect. The leaves are all 
_ at the base, except one pair at the upper part of the stem. The root-leaves are long- 
stalked, and have three thinnish obovate leaflets, which are minutely toothed. The 
, pair of leaves on the stem have the stalk about as long as the leaflets, pointed and 
_ entire on the margins, the lower ones nearly an inch long, the upper ones about half 
aslong. There are but one or two heads on each stem at the summit, each on a pedi- 
cel longer than the leaves. The heads are about an inch in diameter, rather loosely 
flowered, each flower being on a short, slender pedicel, or stem, which bends back- — 
ward at maturity. Each flower has a long-toothed calyx about half as long as the 
corolla, which is white, tinged with purple. 
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This species is found in rich open woodlands, and in prairies in Ohio, 
Illinois, Kentucky, and westward. It is of a very vigorous growth, but 
somewhat smaller in size than the common red clover. It should re- 
ceive the attention of farmers and its value be ascertained by cuitiva- 
tion and experiment. (Plate 94.) 
ONOBRYCHIS. 
Onobrychis sativa (Sainfoin). 
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A perennial, having somewhat the appearance of Lucerne, but of smaller size and 
different habit. It seldom exceeds 14 feet in height, with a weak stem, rather long, 
pinnate leaves, and flowers of a pink color in a loose spike, 2 to 4 inches in length, 
raised on a long, naked peduncle or stalk. The flowers are succeeded by short, single- 
seeded pods, which are strongly reticulated or marked by raised lines and depressed 
pits. 
This leguminous forage plant has recently been introduced into this 
country under the name of ‘“aspercet.”. Esparsette is the German 
_ name; sainfoin is the name used in France and England. : 
It is a native of Central and Southern Europe and Western Asia, and 
in Europe has long been in cultivation. From experiments made by 
the Duke of Bedford, in England, we learn that it was first introduced 
to English farmers as a plait for cultivation from Flanders and Franee, 
_ where it has been long cultivated. It was found to be less productive 
_ than the broad-leaved clovers, but on chalky and gravelly soils there 
was abundant proof of the superiority of sainfoin. It produces but 
little herbage the first year, but improves in quantity for several years. 
Mr. Martin J. Sutton, in a recent work on “Permanent and Tem po- 
rary Pastures,” says that it has been cultivated in England for over 
_~ two hundred years. He says that it is essentially a food for sheep, and 
’ in pasturing the sheep do it no injury. It is also useful for horses, but 
_ produces nothing like the quantity of green fodder that can be obtained 
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