Wild White
One plant above others and one method of farming have, above others, captured the interest of many of our visitors. The plant is not a grass or mixture of grasses but a trefoil-wild white clover. It is a lordly but lovely herb, very sweet in scent, much beloved of bees, which will make great stores of honey from it, though all other flowers fail. It provides a rich herbage ; and more than all, enriches the soil. It will flourish, and does flourish, in most parts of England, but Kent is its spiritual home ; and the demand for the seed of " Kent wild white " begins to be prodigious. I heard last week of a visitor's request to be supplied with five hundred tons ! Makers of our own pastures begin to fear that the foreign demand may unduly diminish the home supply, to our own loss.
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