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EMERALD SWEET Melilotus alba annua 
An entirely new annual white-blossomed sweet clover developed by the Texas 
Agricultural Experiment Station and introduced in 1944. It branches profusely 
from the crown, is many and fine stemmed, leafy, green seeded and is shorter 
than Hubam. Adapted wherever Hubam is grown, it is especially valuable as a 
pasture or hay crop, recovering more rapidly from close grazing than Hubam, 
which it nearly equals in soil-improving possibilities. 
HUBAM Melilotus alba annua 
A most valuable annual legume crop for grazing and soil improvement. Dis- 
covered in Alabama as a sport in a field of Biennial Sweet clover, which it closely 
resembles; introduced as a commercial crop by Professor Hughes, of Ames, 
Iowa, about 1915, Hubam is subject to frost injury, but may be sown in south 
Texas from September through November or after January first; from San 
Antonio to Waco in January to March; from Dallas northward, in March and 
April. It makes rapid and luxuriant growth valuable for grazing, matures before 
cotton root rot becomes active and shows promise in the control of this pest. An 
important winter cover crop and soil builder in the citrus orchards of the Rio 
Grande Valley, can be plowed under with advantage when either young or mature; 
used also for silage and is very desirable for bees. 

Emerald Sweet Clover 
VELVET BEANS 
Stizolobium spp. 
Velvet beans produce a greater growth than any other summer annual legume planted 
for forage and soil improvement in the high rainfall belt of southeastern Texas. 
Immune to wilt and rarely attacked by root-knot, the species is more adaptable than 
cowpeas on rich soils in warm moist climates. Responds to irrigation and smothers 
out undesirable weeds, brush and grasses. Cattle and hogs graze and fatten, on the 
matured seed in winter. The development and introduction of bunch types has 
increased the range of adaptability of this valuable legume. 
EARLY SPECKLED 
The most extensively grown sort, with long trailing, coarse, viny stems often 20 
feet in length and dense growth of large leaves. The grape-like clusters of showy 
purple blossoms are attractive. 
