The scribbled note on the back said it was sainfoin. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Wenlock Edge] Reference
Champs, near Meaux, in lucerne, sainfoin, and clover, with the object of producing a famine. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
The sainfoin became an emblem of those traditional flower-rich hay meadows which once covered much of this landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Wenlock Edge] Reference
There are occasional fields of sainfoin and of turnips; but these latter are small, and no ridging or hurdling is yet practised. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference
The methods for making alfalfa hay will apply also to sainfoin. From Wordnik.com. [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference
The feeding value of sainfoin is much the same as that of alfalfa. From Wordnik.com. [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference
Cultivation of sainfoin for seed in the conditions of the Transylvanian plain. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Because of this it is specially important that sainfoin shall be sown on a clean seed-bed. From Wordnik.com. [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference
The two most striking exceptions are from foreign soil, the purple-blue lucerne and the crimson sainfoin. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference
A brace of partridges rose out of the sainfoin, and flew down the hills; and watching their curving flight. From Wordnik.com. [Esther Waters] Reference
But the methods followed in obtaining seed from alfalfa would probably also answer equally well for sainfoin. From Wordnik.com. [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference
It has been found more difficult to get a good stand of sainfoin plants than of other varieties of the clover family. From Wordnik.com. [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference
Besides beetroot for sugar, clover and sainfoin are grown, little or no barley, and neither turnips nor mangel-wurzel. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
Weeds, therefore, and sometimes grasses are much liable to come into the soil occupied by the sainfoin and to crowd the same. From Wordnik.com. [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference
Annual legumes grown in Montana include field pea, lentils and chickpeas, whereas perennial legumes include alfalfa and sainfoin. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Corn, rye and sainfoin were already very advanced, all here testifying to highly scientific farming; and elsewhere roots were being sown. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
These are maimed, feeble creatures, who will linger in the sainfoin-fields close by, and not the powerful aviators required by the journey. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
The sainfoin fields are now of the most beautiful pink, and from the number of hive-bees frequenting them the humming noise is quite extraordinary. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
He once noticed mole-heaps of a peculiar kind in a field of sainfoin, and it looked to him as if this mole worked in a way of his own, quite unlike the others. From Wordnik.com. [A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs] Reference
Much wheat, barley, and oats, are also cultivated, with a great deal of sainfoin and clover, which is never pastured, but cut, and carried green into the stalls of the cattle. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.] Reference
Meanwhile they prospered on the luxuriant pasturage of the prairie, with its abundance of sainfoin and edible roots, of which the porcine representatives showed genuine appreciation. From Wordnik.com. [Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery] Reference
The mud explodes like shells as the hoofs crush into it, but somehow every one is across and away, and on to the green road and a line of sainfoin much sooner than could be expected. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference
If there is a pink carpet of sainfoin anywhere in the neighbourhood, 'tis there that the Mason goes plundering by preference, though it cost her a four hundred yards 'journey every time. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
The small quantity of lucerne and sainfoin, moreover, shews that there are but few herds in this part of France, and that meat, butter, or cheese, form but a small part of the food of the peasantry. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.] Reference
Bee in the construction and provisioning of a single cell, I counted the number of steps from a nest to the road where the mortar was mixed and from the same nest to the sainfoin-field where the harvest was gathered. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
From what has been said with reference to the distribution of sainfoin in Europe and Asia, it will be apparent that it is a hardy plant, which has highest adaptation for climates temperate and mild to moderately cool. From Wordnik.com. [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference
In the sainfoin just short of the Pound Field. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Timothy by Verlyn Klinkenborg] Reference
1796 he cut nearly 400 tons of sainfoin from 104 acres of land previously valued at 12s. an acre. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of English Agriculture] Reference
On fields of sainfoin, ruddy pink. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914] Reference
In Canada, sainfoin has succeeded in Quebec. From Wordnik.com. [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference
Or sainfoin, circinate, or moss in marshy fen. From Wordnik.com. [A Nonsense Anthology] Reference
Clover, sainfoin, and grasses under rotation 2,611,722. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of English Agriculture] Reference
Clover, sainfoin, and grasses under rotation 2,737,387. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of English Agriculture] Reference
Broom, and cytisus, and hawthorn mingled with roses, gladiolus, and sainfoin. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series] Reference
Wheat, barley or oats, sainfoin, lucerne or clover, and fallow, form the universal rotation. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.] Reference
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