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Buffalo, New York 
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Timothy Clover 
. Lawn Grasses 
Alfalfa Alsike 
Seed Corn 
Garden Seed 
Wholesale Dealer in 
New York 
Pennsylvania and 
The New England States 
TIMOTHY 
CLOVER 
and all kinds of 
“FIELD 
SEEDS 
Fancy Grasses 
White Clover 
POP CORN 
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Description of Legumes 
Lespedeza bicolor Turcz (SHRUB LESPE- 
DEZA)—A perennial bushy shrub 4 to 10 feet 
high, with fair-sized purple flowers. It is 
native to Japan but has been grown for some 
years as an ornamental in theEastern States. 
Lespedeza capitata Michx (RouNDHEAD 
LESPEDEZA)—A stiff erect perennial about 3 
feet tall, with yellowish-white flowers. It 
occurs in dry fields and open sandy woods 
throughout the eastern United States. 
Lespedeza frutescens (WAND LESPEDEZA) 
—An erect purple-flowered perennial 1 to 3 
feet tall occurring in dry upland soils 
throughout the eastern United States. 
Lespedeza serivea (SERICEA LESPEDEZA) 
—A deep-rooted somewhat bushy perennial 
about 3 feet high, with greenish-yellow flow- 
ers. The leaflets of the trifoliolate leaves 
are usually broadest at the square-cut tip. 
A native of Asia, it was first grown in this 
country in 1896 and is apparently well 
adapted to conditions from the Gulf States 
to about 100 miles north of the Ohio River, 
west to central Kansas and Oklahoma. It 
has survived several seasons in southern 
Vermont and southern Michigan and it has 
withstood winter temperatures of —17° F. 
Lespedeza striata Thunb (COMMON LES- 
PEDEZA)—A branching annual usually less 
than 1 foot in height, with blue-purple flow- 
ers. The three leaflets are elliptic in shape. 
They are less broad and the stipules are 
much less conspicuous than in L. stipulacea; 
furthermore the stem pubescence points 
downward, not upward as in L. stipulacea. 
Is it native to eastern Asia and was intro- 
duced into the southern United States prior 
to the Civil War. It is frequently called 
Japan clover. 
Lespedeza violacea (lL) Pers (VIOLET 
LESPEDEZA)—A much-branched, slender per- 
ennial, 1 to-3 feet high, with rather showy 
violet-colored flowers. It occurs in dry soil 
throughout the eastern United States. 
Lespedeza virginiea (L) Britt (SLENDER 
LESPEDEZA)—An erect wandlike or slightly 
branching purple-flowered perennial of dry 
soils throughout the eastern United States. 
It is shade-tolerant, a good soil improver, 
and a pioneer on bare areas such as shale 
road cuts. 
Leucaena—A genus of a dozen species of 
unarmed trees and shrubs, closely related to 
Acacia and Mimosa, and largely confined to 
tropical and subtropical America. 
Lotus americanus (Nutt) Bisch (AMER- 
ICAN DEERVETCH)—A variable _ slender- 
stemmed loosely branched annual 10 to 20 
inches high, usually with 3-foliolate leaves 
and pinkish flowers. It grows in dry sandy 
soil from Minnesota to Arkansas westward, 
frequently on acid soil. 
Lotus humistratus Greene (FooTHILL 
DEERVETCH )—A prostrate to ascending dif- 
fusely branched woolly annual with 3- to 5- 
foliolate leaves and yellow flowers. It occurs 
from southern California to eastern New 
Mexico and is also known as hill lotus and 
colchita. 
Lupinus parviflorus Nutt (LODGEPOLE 
LUPINE)—A slender perennial, 1 to 3 feet 
high, with light blue or sometimes white 
flowers. It occurs in meadows from South 
Dakota and Colorado to Utah and Montana. 
Medicago hispida Gaertn (CALIFORNIA 
BUR-CLOVER)—A yellow-flowered annual nat- 
uralized from Europe. It is adapted to cli- 
mates with mild winters and is most used in 
California and the other Pacific Coast States 
as a winter cover and green-manure crop 
and as a pasture plant. 
Medicago lupulina L (BLAcK MEDIC)— 
An introduced yellow-flowered European an- 
nual escaped in waste places throughout the 
country. It is also called nonesuch, hop 
medic, and yellow trefoil. 
Medicago sativa L (ALFALFA)—A deep- 
rooted purple-flowered perennial with sev- | 
eral stems from a root crown. It is second 
only to red clover as a forage crop in Amer- 
ica. It is known to have been cultivated 
in Persia about five centuries before Christ | 
and was first grown in the United States in 
Georgia in 1736, although it was not until 
it reached California from Chile in 1850 that | 
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ASSOCIATION ... . 
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La Grande, Oregon 
Ontario, Oregon 
Hardy Idaho and Oregon 
Northern Grown Seeds 
ALFALFAS 
Ladak 
Grimm 
Orestan 
Common 
GRASSES 
Crested Wheat Grass 
Chewings Fescue 
Tall Fescue 
Meadow Fescue 
Red Creeping Fescue 
Bromus inermis 
CLOVERS 
Fancy Red Clover 
Ladino Clover 
White Dutch Clover 
Strawberry Clover 
Austrian Field Peas 
CARLOTS OR LESS 




its use became widespread in this country. | 

ichigan 
Grown 
Farm Seeds 
Alfalfa 
Red Clover 
Alsike 
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Roscoe J. Carl 
& Son 
LANSING, MICHIGAN 



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