The following varieties are discussed and in the order named: Medium Red clover, Alfalfa, Alsike, Mammoth, Crimson, Small White, Japan, Burr and Sweet. All of these varieties will be found worthy of more or less attention on the part of the husbandmen in the various parts of this continent. Chapter XII. is devoted to a brief discussion of miscellaneous varieties which have as yet been but little grown in this country, or of varieties of but local interest. The former are Sainfoin (_Onobrychis sativa_), Egyptian clover (_Trifolium Alexandrianum_), yellow clover (_Medicago lupulina_), Sand Lucerne (_Medicago media_), and a newly introduced variety of Japanese clover (_Lespedeza bicolor_). These may prove more or less valuable to the agriculture of the United States when they have been duly tested, a work which as yet has been done only in the most limited way. The latter include Florida clover (_Desmodium tortuosum_), more frequently called Beggar Weed, Buffalo clover (_Trifolium reflexum_), and Seaside clover (_Trifolium invulneratum_). These may be worthy of some attention in limited areas where the conditions are favorable, but it is not likely that they will ever be very generally grown. They are dwelt upon rather to show their small economic importance and with a view to prevent needless experimentation with plants possessed of so little real merit. CHAPTER II SOME GENERAL PRINCIPLES WHICH APPLY TO THE GROWING OF CLOVERS In growing clovers, as in growing other crops of the same species, which embrace several varieties, certain features of management will apply more or less to all of these in common. It will be the aim to point out the chief of these in the present chapter.