JUNE PLANTS.
Fig. 80.—White or Dutch Clover.
With June comes the incomparable white or Dutch clover, Trifolium repens ([Fig, 80]), whose chaste and modest bloom betokens the beautiful, luscious, and unrivalled sweets which are hidden in its corolla tube. Also its sister, Alsike or Swedish, Trifolium hybrida ([Fig, 81]), which seems to resemble both the white and red clover. It is a stronger grower than the white, and has a whitish blossom tinged with pink. This forms excellent pasture and hay for cattle, sheep, etc., and may well be sown by the apiarist. It will often pay apiarists to furnish neighbor farmers with seed as an inducement to grow this par excellent honey plant. Like white clover, it blooms all through June into July. Both of these should be sown early in spring with timothy, five or six pounds of seed to the acre, in the same manner that red clover seed is sown.
Fig. 81.—Alsike Clover.
Fig. 82.—Melilot Clover.
Fig. 83.—Borage.
