Quite a shout went up from all the Asters; and the late Clovers and Buttercups joined in it, for they were honest, sensible flowers, and liked fair play.
It feeds in May on clovers (Trifolium pratense and T.
It is exceedingly destructive, feeding on clovers (Trifolium pratense and T.
It feeds on the purple and Dutch clovers (Trifolium pratense and T.
The larvae may be seen in vast numbers during May and June, feeding on clovers (Trifolium pratense and T.
Any plant that is more nutritious and more productive of pasture and hay than the familiar clovers and grasses will add immensely to the dairy industry, and therefore to the wealth of the State.
How many of the true clovers, the medics, and the sweet cloversdo you know?
Send me properly labelled pressed specimens of the leaves and blossoms of the clovers that you have been able to find.
The members of three distinct genera are popularly called clovers: The True Clovers (Trifolium), of which six or seven species are found in New York State, and more than sixty species are found in the United States.
The scientists became interested in the supposed disease, and they finally ascertained that these nodules are filled with bacteria, which are the underground partners of the clovers and other legumes.
The Cloversand Their Kin 349 Anna Botsford Comstock.
None of these plants are, however, rich in protein as alfalfa and the other clovers are.
This seems to be the function of all the clovers according to the rankness of their growth at the time that they are grazed.
I know a place where the sun is like gold, And the cherry blooms burst with snow, And down underneath is the loveliest nook, Where the four-leaf clovers grow.
You must love and be strong, and so, If you work, if you wait, you will find the place Where the four-leaf clovers grow.
The rooms had been literally sown with the small objects; the clovers and horseshoes being cut from pasteboard and painted, and the black cats being tiny china, wooden, or bronze affairs.
What did the sulphur butterflies provide as food for their caterpillar babies before the commonest clovers came over from the Old World to possess the soil?
Pollen carried by him there from other cloverscomes off on its sticky surface before his abdomen gets freshly dusted from the anthers, which are necessarily rubbed against while he sips nectar.
In this fashion the leaves of the white and other clovers also go to sleep, to protect their sensitive surfaces from cold by radiation, it is thought.
To sow such "permanent pasture," prepared by blending together grasses and clovers with an eye to all the above necessities, there will be needed some seven million seeds for every acre.
The ordinary buttercup would replace the creeping species, and white or red clovers take the place of the little yellow ones, whilst grasses would very soon spring up all over it.
Then the plantains, dandelions, and yellow cloverspatiently begin their work again.
This is the first book published which treats on the growth, cultivation and treatment of clovers as applicable to all parts of the United States and Canada, and which takes up the entire subject in a systematic way and consecutive sequence.
Specimens of shamrock and otherclovers are not infrequently found with four leaflets, and, like other rarities, are considered lucky.
But then who does in a town like Waloo where patches of four-leaf clovers are as scarce as paving stones are plenty?
Four-leaf clovers had been no part of the table decorations.
Rebecca Mary did not need Common Sense to tell her that young aviator heroes do not carry four-leaf clovers carelessly in their pockets.
His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune; Oh, for a bee's experience Of clovers and of noon!
The three walked a little way in silence; Erlend frowning perplexedly at the ground, Brand kicking the heads off the clovers in the sullen discomfort which this subject always aroused in him.
Shaking the clovers from his hair, Alrek sat up,--he would have stood up if it were not that the Frowner had crept across his feet.
These are the reasons, however, why the grasses and clovers or trefoils continue to enrich old pastures when most of the other plants disappear, with the exception of daisies and buttercups, and the acid sorrels.
The method of the clovers and trefoils is quite different.
The medium and small red clovers will produce a good crop of seed from second growth, if it be not too dry, immediately after mowing.
Red clovers are divided into large, medium, and small.
In England it is taking the place of cloversand rye-grass.
The type of the clovers is rich in color, and the shape of the flower-heads and the single flowers escape ordinary observation; but notwithstanding this, clovers are easily recognized, even if new types come to hand.
In the clovers and their allies this type reverts halfway to the single form, producing only three leaflets on each stalk.
White and red clovers and many other species are distinguished simply by adjectives, the generic name remaining the same for all.
But the experiment clearly showed that "four-leaved" clovers may be produced in any desired quantity, provided that the seed of the variety is available.
The different kinds of clovers will sometimes grow on hard or poor soil, but they do far better if the soil is enriched and properly prepared before the seed is sowed.
Hence without cost to the farmer these clovers help the soil to feed their neighbors, the true grasses.
Included in the general term "grass crop" are the grasses and clovers that are used for pasturage as well as for hay.
The grasses and clovers are of course used for pasturage and hay.
Lands that are too poor to produce clovers will frequently yield fair crops of vetch.
But, as several times explained in this book, the clovers are legumes, and all legumes are able by means of the bacteria that live on their roots to use the free nitrogen of the air.
Study these clovers carefully and mix them with your grass seed.
Red clover Hay and pasture Perennial Best of the cloversfor hay.
In the North and West the clovers mixed with timothy hay make a useful combination for this purpose.
Having found and pressed four-leaved clovers in the days of summer, paste one lightly to each place card as symbol of good-luck.
Perennial White is one of the clovers most frequently sown on lawns and cricket grounds; when constantly mown and rolled, it produces a dense mass of herbage.
The cloversfrom an autumn sowing are liable to destruction by a severe winter, even if slugs spare them.
On land which is liable to burn, clovers maintain their verdure under a hot sun after grasses have become brown.
Then it is an open question whether an admixture of clovers may be regarded as the lesser of two evils.
Seeds of the grasses andclovers suitable for producing a fine turf are nearly all expensive, some of them very expensive.
On the farm in question the earliest forage is rye, followed in rotation by the variousclovers and mixtures of oats, Canada field peas, vetch, soy beans, etc.
Soiling furnished by grains, grasses, and clovers are usually fed in the stables or feed yards, and corn and sorghum are usually strewn over the pastures, as much as is needed from day to day.
Most clovers are deep rooted plants and therefore great soil improvers physically as well as being great nitrogen gatherers.
The mammoth red and the medium red clovers are probably the best of their genus on the heavier soils, while crimson clover is best on sandy soils and where it will grow, on the lighter gravel loams.
Where the clovers grow well they make excellent cover crops as well as green manure crops.
All in the bright September weather, When west winds blow, Five little clovers were glad together Under the snow.
All in the bleak December weather, When north winds blow, Five little clovers lay warm together Under the snow.
All in the sultry August weather, When no winds blow, Five little clovers were sad together Under the snow.
All in the fragrant May-time weather, When south winds blow, Five little clovers crept close together Under the snow.
The grasses and clovers are generally broadcasted by hand or machine, and are then lightly harrowed and are generally rolled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clovers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
