VETCH  , in See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany, the See also:

• ENGLISH

English name for Vicia saliva, also known as tare, a leguminous See also:

• ANNUAL

annual See also:

• HERB (Lat. herba, grass, food for cattle, generally taken to represent the Old Lat. forbea, Gr. 4op(3i1, pasture, <0p/3Ew, to feed, Sans. bharb, to eat)

herb with trailing or climbing stems, See also:

• COMPOUND
• COMPOUND (from Lat. componere, to combine or put together)

compound leaves with five or six pairs of leaflets, reddish-See also:

• PURPLE

purple See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers See also:

• BORNE, KARL LUDWIG (1786–1837)

borne singly or in pairs in the See also:

• LEAF (O. Eng. leaf, cf. Dutch loof, Ger. Laub, Swed. lof, &c.; possibly to be referred to the root seen in Gr. Ma-eta, to peel, strip)

leaf-See also:

• AXIS (Lat. for " axle ")

axis, and a silky pod containing four to ten smooth seeds . The See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, sometimes regarded as a distinct See also:

• SPECIES

species, V. angusti-(olia, is See also:

• COMMON

common in dry soils . There are two races of the cultivated vetch, See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter and See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring vetches: the former, a See also:

• HARDY, ALEXANDRE (1569?-1631)
• HARDY, SIR THOMAS DUFFUS (1804-1878)
• HARDY, SIR THOMAS MASTERMAN
• HARDY, THOMAS (1840- )

hardy form, capable of enduring See also:

• FROST (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch, vorst, Ger. Frost, from the common Teutonic verb meaning " to freeze," Dutch, vriezcn, Ger. frieren; the Indo-European root is seen in Lat. pruina, hoar-frost, cf. prurire, to itch, burn, pruna, burning coal, Sans
• FROST, WILLIAM EDWARD (1810–1877)

frost, has smoother, more cylindrical pods with smaller seeds than the summer variety, and gives less bulk of See also:

• STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem and leaves . The spring vetch is a more delicate plant and grows more rapidly and luxuriantly than the winter variety . The name vetch is applied to other species of the genus Vicia . Vicia orobus, See also:

• BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter vetch, and V. sylvatica, See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood vetch, are See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• PLANTS

plants . Another British plant, Hippocrepis, is known as horseshoe vetch from the fact of its pod breaking into several horseshoe-shaped See also:

• JOINTS

joints . Anthyllis vulneraria is See also:

• KIDNEY

kidney-vetch, a herb with heads of usually yellow flowers, found on dry See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks . Astragalus is another genus of See also:

• LEGUMINOSAE

Leguminosae, and is known as See also:

• MILK (0. Eng. meoluc; from a common Indo-European root, cf. Lat. mulgere, Gr. ?t dXyetv)

milk-vetch . Vetches are a very valuable See also:

• FORAGE

forage See also:

• CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop . Being indigenous to See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain, and not fastidious in regard to See also:

• SOIL

soil, they can be cultivated successfully under a See also:

• GREAT

great diversity of circumstances, and are well adapted for poor soils . By combining the winter and spring varieties, and making several sowings of each in its See also:

• SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season at intervals of two or three See also:

• WEEKS, EDWIN LORD (1849-1903)

weeks, it is practicable to have them See also:

• FIT

fit for use from May till See also:

• OCTOBER

October, and thus to carry out a See also:

• SYSTEM

system of soiling by means of vetches alone .

But it is usually more expedient to use them in See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination with grass and See also:

• CLOVER

clover, beginning with the first cutting of the latter in May, taking the winter vetches in See also:

• JUNE

June, recurring to the See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian ryegrass or clover as the second cutting is ready, and afterwards bringing the spring vetches into use . Each crop can thus be used when in its best See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state for See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food, and so as gratefully to vary their See also:

• DIETARY

dietary .