The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-07

cese, have proceeded enough seed n ao .ne
course Of eighteen or twenty years " ss,e
detached parts Of vast areas con s ~ ;,.e
them from barren unsfghtiy VASES So, sn.o
beautiful lawns, meadows, ana paS.ua1
..a,nds r;yalling the aspect OF the Eme-
s saiS Ia,s Itself in veriure, and Capable OF
~ Thousands of stock in high oruer
a mhara before scarcely hundreds eked out q
taIs.stnryed and pitiable existence. II by
.h;o time the plant has not reached the
aI;ss;sainpi. 5r cone even beyond it, It has
- iaast extended from the Tombeckbee 10
,he Cane Fear. and from the seacoast to the
mid regions Of come Of the Atlantic States.
The fact serves to evince it's wonderful
movers OF self propagation SO that the per,
son who gets upon his farm very small
tract of it, however sparsely set the nrs1
wear. NAV consider himself secure OF nav
ing his whole plantation oyerrun WIN II IN
a very short time, and of his subsequent
ability TO keep ten head of cattle Where
now keeps unlysope, and that stlnted ana
almost vaiueless from want. - -
u There is another and very important
thing we do know Of this clover-viz., thst
il is an annual, not perennial, plant ana :
therefore, not likely to become pest IN
the country, like wire-grass ana so,i .
others, which are proving almost the run
Off some parts of Virginia. rms Is NO
longer matter of any uncertainty; ana
Introduce it here. and dwell upon IT .he'
longer. because it is point on which nno
the minds Of many correspondents In great
fear and dread * IT, -,
A gentleman from South Carolins, Mr. :.
W. Watts, / think, writing to the Hon. Mr..
Ravenel, Of that State, says ut tine "a,
pan clover has all the good qualities ana
none of the bad ones, of Bermuda grass
While it will stand any amount OF tramp
ling by stock in the pasture, it cannot reset
the pillow and hoe, to which. the bermuda
bids defiance" Wis.
In q letter received by me from Virginia
. week or two since gentleman of that
State saws he had lately met with q friend
who had Just returned from trip through
parts Of Georgia and South Carolina that
he had seen the clover growing luxuriantlv
in those States, and that it was regarded as
perfectly manageable in garden and held
cultivation or words to that effect.
! We have lately had snap of very cold
weather. mere. DSlOEc Aubt tbO PAoAAeS AN~N>~
TO the ground with great tenacity; but now
thew come up with the least effort, and ap-
pear to be killed root and branch. Scarcely
q day passes that do not make careful ex-
arainations as to this point, for it is one on
which have felt far more anxiety than on
any other. At present feel perfectly as
sured upon the subject, and therefore en-.
tirelv OF ease. !, In fact, I satisfied myself
we'll with regard to it last winter other
wise, no consideration on earth would have
induced me to recommend the cultivation
of the plant in this already too sorely tried
country, or any other.
But what may be regarded, perhaps, as
proof still more strongly positive, there is on
this place, Siluerdale, the residence of DR..
J. James Mott, turnip patch which was
broken up in August on q piece Of ground
almost entirely overrun with this Lespe-
deza. I examined the patch in September
and October with direct view to the point
in question. The clover was found on
three sides of it, more or less rife. In
some places it was very thick close up
to where the pillow had passed along;
but beyond that on the plowed side
and among the turnips there was not a
plant to be seen, except here and there
solitary tuft which evidently had not been
covered by the plow., 1t does not, therefore,
propagate from the roots, but from the seed
alone. T. 8. W. MORT.