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KENDALL AND WHITNEY'S CATALOGUE. 
ALSIKE CLOVER. 
The most productive and without doubt the most hardy variety yet introduced 
Among the forage plants recently introduced into this country none 
has excited more interest than the Alsike Clover (Trifolum hyhriduni) . 
It was introduced into England in 1834 from the province of Alsike in 
Sweden, and has within a few years been cultivated to a very limited 
extent in this country. It is erect in its growth, with flowers at first 
white but turning to pink with age. It has less tap-root than the red 
clover and a large mass of strong fibrous roots. 
The Alsike Clover possesses many very valuable qualities, and will 
prove to be an acquisition of great worth to the American farmer and 
bee keeper. It is richer in nitrogen than either the red or white clo- 
ver, and is therefore more nutritious. For bee pasture it is very val- 
uable ; the nectaries of honey-cups of the flowers being so shallow that 
the honey can be reached and extracted by the common honey bee. Its 
strong mass of fibrous roots give a hold on the soil which enable it to 
defy the action of the frost, when red clover would be thrown out. It 
ripens its seeds in July and in permanent pasture, these fall to the 
ground and re-seed it, making it hold the ground permanently. Another 
method by which it continues to thicken up is its habit of throwing out 
fresh shoots from the roots as the top is fed off or trod down in pastures. 
The seed is much smaller than that of red clover, and consequently 
it requires only one-half as much to seed the ground. 
It will grow on low marshy land as well as on tillable, and to the 
height of two feet. 
After the seed has been threshed, the straw is nearly or quite equal 
'in value to the Red Clover Hay, being naturally stronger and sweeter, 
and from the fact of earlier harvesting, is not injured by the fall rains, 
PRICE 40 CENTS PER JPOUJSD. 
(Clover when ordered by mail is subject to an extra charge of. 15 
•cents per pound.) 
