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Description of Legumes 
Trifolium agrarium / (Hop cLover)— L D hy f Id L d 
A branched ascending European annual 6 to e ae n e i T ° 
18 inches high, with oblong heads of yellow 
flowers. It is now naturalized throughout 
the eastern United States except in the ex- | ODENSE, DENMARK 
treme south. 
Trifolium arvense L (RABBITFOOT CLO- 
vER)—An annual herb 6 to 18 inches high 
with cylindrical heads of whitish flowers. A 
native of Eurasia, it is now naturalized 
throughout the Eastern States. It is also 
called pussy clover, stone clover, and calf 
clover. 






Trifolium fragiferum Ll (STRAWBERRY 
CLOVER)—A European perennial resembling 
white clover in habit and usefulness. It has 
become an important plant in lawns and per- 
manent pastures of New Zealand and Aus- 
tralia. In the United States it is used as 
a pasture plant in the West Coast States, 
and in the northern Great Plains it is be- 
ing used locally to reclaim moist meadows 
rendered alkaline by seepage of irrigation 
water. 
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Trifolium hybridum -L (ALSIKE CLO- 
VER)—A native of Europe, naturalized in the 
eastern United States. It is a short-lived 
but very hardy perennial, usually treated in 
this country as a biennial. The flowers are, 
pinkish or sometimes *white, in globose 
heads. It serves as a good green-manure 
crop and is an excellent meadow and pas- 
ture plant, often being cut for hay when 
in full bloom. It is a more certain crop 
for sour or acid soils than red clover and 
is well adapted to poorly drained sites. 
Trifolium inearnatum L (CRIMSON 
CLOVER)—A winter annual 1 to 3 feet tall SPECIALTIES 
with cylindrical heads of bright crimson 
showy flowers. A native of southern Europe, 
it is grown as a green-manure crop in this CABBAGE AND CAULIFLOWER 
country along the Atlantic coast from New 
Jersey southward and in the eastern Cotton 
Belt. Planted early in the fall, it affords 
excellent protection to the soil during the 
winter and may even be lightly grazed; then 
if turned under in the spring, it serves as 
an excellent green-manure plant. Grown 
spe 
with small grains and vetch it makes a good 
ip op ae S spring hay. It is an early source of honey. ( oO n t r a Cc t 
Trifolium pratense L (RED CLOVER)— 
A biennial, which under favorable conditions 
| e 44 carries over a third year. It is usually 1 
0 in S to 2 feet tall and bears large heads of rose- 
purple to nearly white flowers. It is a na- 
tive of Europe but much of the American 
production comes from numerous forms de- 
A B C j d veloped in the United States, where it is 
now the most important forage crop, grown 
ag or a ar od chiefly for hay but used also for green- T Oo B A Cc Cc oO 
manure and short rotation pastures. In the 
: Northeast it is used with grasses to po P E P P E R 
® a vegetative cover in diversion ditches 
is cultivated most extensively in the States 
east of Nebraska and north of Tennessee E G G p L A hi Ti 
and to a lesser extent throughout most of 
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Trifolium repens L (WHITE CLOVER)— oars 3 
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white flowers in globose heads and creeping Korean and Sereca Lespedeza 
LESPEDEZA branches frequently rooting at the nodes. It 
is also called honeysuckle clover and Dutch 
clover. It is native to pee as prin 
° and probably to northern United States and ‘ 4 
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ralized. There are three common varieties, i A 
namely: Common white Dutch; Ladino, full information 
a which is a mammoth variety; and wild 
white, which is of most value in England. 
Ladino clover, in mixture with grasses, is ry 
one of the important erosion-control plants 
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sirable for lawns and it has long been one 
Olney, Ill. of the best pasture plants. | LIMESTONE, TENNESSEE 
Trifolium subterraneum / (SUBTERRA- WHOLESALE SEED GROWERS a ee 
“‘The Red Top People of the World’’ RANEAN CLOVER)—A European annual with 
prostrate stems up to 1 foot in length; it | 
has white flowers marked with pink, in clus- 




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