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A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.
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The second Lenormand card, representing hope, optimism and short-term luck.
Examples of clover in a Sentence
In many places turnips and clover were still unknown or ignored.
Alastair found a four leaf clover on the way there.
They were fed with hay during the annual inundation, and at other times tethered in meadows of green clover.
Lucerne and clover are extensively grown for fodder.
Blith's book is the first systematic work in which there are some traces of alternate husbandry or the practice of interposing clover and turnip between culmiferous crops.
Clover and turnips were confined to a few districts, and at the latter period were scarcely cultivated at all by common farmers in the northern part of the island.
From the third edition of Hartlib's Legacie we learn that clover was cut green and given to cattle; and it appears that this practice of soiling, as it is now called, had become very common about the beginning of the 18th century, wherever clover was cultivated.
The dung of black cattle, horses, sheep, goats, &c., which contains sal ammoniac ready formed, is collected during the first four months of the year, when the animals feed on the spring grass, a kind of clover.
Many insects and other invertebrates, mostly noxious, have been accidentally naturalized, and some have been deliberately introduced, like the honey-bee, now feral in Australasia and North America, and the humble-bee, imported into New Zealand to effect the fertilization of red clover.
Nevada is a trading centre for the surrounding country, and a fine farming and stock-raising region, in which Indian corn, oats, wheat, clover, timothy and blue-grass are grown; coal is mined in the vicinity.
The principal crops include Indian corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, buckwheat, rye and clover.
Swedes gradually give place to mangolds, rye and clover before the end of April, when shearing of the ewe flock begins, to be finished early in May.
Starting, however, with that year as the most important in Irish economic history in modern times, we find that between 1847 and 1905 the total area under crops - cereals, green crops, flax, meadow and clover - decreased by 582,348 acres.
Outside the recognized cereal and green crops, two others may be considered, flax and meadow and clover.
During the period under review the area under meadow and clover has increased by more than 50%, rising from 1,138,946 acres in 1847 to 2,294,506 in 1905.
It would thus appear that a large proportion of the land which has ceased to bear cereal or green crops is now laid down in meadow and clover.
Large herds of swine fatten in the oak and beech forests; and dairy-farming is a thriving industry in the highlands between Agram and Warasdin, where, during the last years of the icth century, systematic attempts were made to replace the mountain pastures by clover and sown grass.
But the main honey-crop of both north and south is gathered from the various trifoliums, among which the white Dutch or common clover (Trifolium repens) is acknowledged to be the most important honey-producing plant wherever it grows.
In the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and in many other parts of the world honey of the finest quality is obtained from this " queen of bee-plants," and in lesser degree from other clovers such as sainfoin, alsike (a hybrid clover), trefoil, &c.
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Hedge and large bindweed were still in flower as was Self-heal, Red clover and Cat's-ear.
The herbs include pignut, adder's-tongue, ribwort plantain, and red clover with yellow rattle, bulbous buttercup and orchids.
Grazing with sheep will reduce it, as will sowing clover into an infested pasture.
To control weeds, grow clover in the winter in areas where you have no plant cover.
In some parts of Britain finding a four-leaf clover also heralds the possibility of meeting your true love on the same day.
For two years the land is down to a grass clover sward which is occasionally mown.
Plants on the ground, including comfrey, clover, iris and nasturtium, all have positive effects on apple trees.
In the garden I have dandelions, clover, dock, nettles and a big patch of ground elder to take care of.
The diet consists of natural plant material, for example dandelion, sow thistle, various herbs and red clover with occasional fruit.
In addition, studies have revealed that red clover isoflavones can also help combat benign prostatic hyperplasia enlargement of the prostate gland.
The introduction of improved pasture which relies on nitrogenous fertilizer with the elimination of white clover is one major loss of a nectar source.
Look out for wild carrot, white clover, weld, ragwort, thistle and black knapweed.
But earlier sowing of crops put pressure on seed set of sub clover, leading to its replacement by other self-regenerating annual legumes.
White clover has been an important constituent of fodder since the 17th century and is the most important pasture legume in Britain.
Two months pre-calving the cows are fed on barley straw which has been undersown with the red clover ley straw which has been undersown with the red clover ley.
The farm's switch to organic production means its 700 acres are now all down to white clover grass leys.
This Clover Pendant doubles not only as a beautiful neckpiece but also as an excellent and very useful yarn cutter.
Many women report a dramatic improvement of their symptoms after taking red clover and research evidence supports its effectiveness.
Recombination of a functional red clover necrotic mosaic virus by recombination rescue of the cell-to-cell movement gene expressed in a transgenic plant.
Sheep and cattle given a free choice between perennial ryegrass and white clover tend to select a mixed diet with perhaps two thirds clover.
Nationally scarce plants found in London's acid grassland include clustered clover, upright chickweed and autumn squill.
Frequent cutting (6 times per year) allows the white clover to dominate the sward.
They are particularly characterized by the abundance of rye grass Lolium spp. and white clover trifolium repens.
The only upside is that you may find a four leaf clover.
Fungal pathogens infect white clover particularly in the colder months of the year.
Even I can remember such men scything wild white clover out of golf greens!
The union taking place underground, while the bulk of both partners in the symbiosis rises into the air, renders the association a little difficult to see, but there is no doubt that the plants in question do afford each other assistance, forming, as it were, a kind of partnership. The most pronounced case of parasitism, that of Cuscuta, the dodder, which infests particularly clover fields, appears to differ only in degree from those mentioned, for the plant, bare of leaves as it is yet contair.s a little chlorophyll.
As affecting agricultural practice there were three noteworthy improvements in respect of the making of which, without the consent of or notice to his landlord, a tenant might claim compensation - (1) the consumption on the holding " by horses, other than those regularly employed on the holding," of corn, cake or other feeding-stuff not produced on the holding; (2) the "consumption on the holding by cattle, sheep, or pigs, or by horses other than those regularly employed on the holding, of corn proved by satisfactory evidence to have been produced and consumed on the holding "; (3) " laying down temporary pasture with clover, grass, lucerne, sainfoin or other seeds sown more than two years prior to the determination of the tenancy."
The land that has been lost to the plough is found to be still further augmented when an inquiry is instituted into the area devoted to clover, sainfoin and grasses under rotation.
Wheat, barley, oats, beans, clover and other leguminous plants, turnips, sugar beet, mange's, potatoes and grass crops have thus been experimented upon.