FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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PROVIDENT. 
Purple Clover. — Trifolium pratense. 
“ Flocks, thick nibbling thro’ the clover’d vale.” 
Thomson. 
“ Nature shall provide 
Green grass and fatt’ning clover for their fare.” 
Dry den. 
The provident husbandman lays up a good 
store of clover hay for the subsistence of his 
cattle during the winter months : his earliest 
spring pastures are also covered with this nu¬ 
tritious plant, which ensures both himself and 
his stock “ a bed of clover.” 
The great changes which have taken place 
in agricultural transactions proves the just¬ 
ness of Atterbury’s remark, that “ a very 
