Turf for Golf Courses - Msu

THE IMPORTANT TURF PLANTS 97
dent. There still exists a dried specimen of the
plant collected by T. C. Porter at Monticello in cen-
tral Georgia in 1846, which is the first definite record
of the plant in America. In the South the opinion
exists in many places that the plant was first intro-
duced during the
Civil War. Doubt-
less the plant was
greatly spread dur-
ing that struggle
by the movements
of cavalry. On
the accompanying
map (Fig. IS) is
shown the outline
of the area over
which Japan Clo-
ver has become
established, and FIG.14.- Japan Clover (Ll$p~dna Jtriata). A
young seedling and the tip of a mature branch.
also the probable
area to the northward over which it can profitably
be seeded on fair greens.
Withi~ the limits indicated on the map, Japan
Clover persists where once established, reseeding
itself each year. In the lower Mississippi Valley