in allaying the pain arising therefrom: great qu

and it frequently occurs that ashes being laid on will stimulate the
land afresh, and cause the seeds to vegetate; which has given rise to
the erroneous opinion with many persons, that ashes, and particularly
soap ashes, will, when sown on land, produce Clover. Red Clover is
usually cultivated in stiff clays or loamy soils; and when sown alone,
about sixteen or eighteen pounds of seed are used for the acre. 54.
TRIFOLIUM medium. ZIGZAG, or MOUNTAIN-CLOVER.--Is in some degree like
the preceeding; it produces a purple flower, and the foliage is much the
same in appearance: but this is a much stronger perennial, and
calculated from its creeping roots to last much longer in the land. It
is equally useful as a food for cattle, and does not possess that
dangerous quality of causing cattle to be hove, or blown, by eating it
when fresh and green. This plant is, however, only to be met with in
upland pastures, and there in its wild state; for it does not seed very
abundantly, and is not in cultivation. In the London seed-markets we
often hear of a species of red Clover termed Cow-grass, and it generally
sells for more money, and is said to differ in having the characters
ascribed to it of this plant, namely, a hollow stem; the leaves more
sharply pointed; the plant being a stronger perennial, and having the
property of not causing the above-mentioned disorder to cows that eat of
it. It is said to be cultivated in Hampshire, from whence I have often
received the seeds which have been purchased purposely for the
experiment; but on growing them, I never could discover these
differences to exist. It is a circumstance worthy notice, that the very
exact character of the Trifolium medium should thus be said to belong to
the supposed variety of red Clover. I have endeavoured