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furze, such as Ulex Europa'us, Common Furze ; Ulex striduSy 
Irish Furze ; Ulex nanus, Dwarf Furze, I cannot say, but I 
should think that, for its upright habit and green soft growth, 
the preference should be given to the Ulex strictus. If so, it is 
a matter of no little interest to know that this plant, now so 
"Strongly recommended for cultivation, was first observed in 
Lord Londonderry's Park, county Down. 
Hence, then, before I come to a conclusion, it behoves me tt> 
try this dispassionately, as in all probability it may differ evea 
more in its qualities than in its botany. 
In sowing I would recommend it to be drilled in spring in. 
rows as much as 18 inches or 2 feet apart, so that it may be 
well cleaned from weeds in summer ; hoeing will greatly assist 
its growth. 
The first crop will be small, but it should be cut the first 
year in order that it may stool out in the following spring 
when, if it has taken well to the soil it will be a thick mass of 
delicate green herbage in the second summer ; and from this 
point its expansion will be more rapid according to circum- 
stances ; it should be used as young as may be, as otherwise 
it is hard and woody, more difficult to prepare for cattle, and 
less nutritious. 
In concluding these remarks upon the clover allies, it only 
remains for me to recommend their more careful study to the 
agriculturist, and more especially to students in the profession ; 
as, apart from the great interest excited in the mind by their 
beauty and peculiarities of structure, much good may be done 
by carefully experimenting and collecting facts connected with 
a family of plants from which we already derive much that is 
good and practically useful. 
Bradford Abbas, Sherborne, Dorset, 
August 2, 1SG7. 
XIX. — On the Composition and Nutritive Value of Trifolium 
striatum, a new kind of Clover. By De. AUGUSTUS VoELCKER. 
A NEW description of clover — the Trifolium striatum — improved 
by a few years' cultivation, has lately been introduced into agri- 
culture. 
This plant is said to grow on every description of land, that 
which is clover-sick included ; it certainly grows on the poorest 
sandy soils, whereon broad-leaved clover either altogether refuses 
to grow or produces but a miserable crop. 
Trifolium striatum is very hardy, well suited for dry land, and 
better capable of resisting injury by frost than other varieties of 
