George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 18 April 1769]

18. Sowed Clover and Burnet Seeds on Do.

Sent Negroe George into the Neck.

burnet: Sanguisorba minor, a perennial affording both grain and hay, which GW and other farmers tried in the latter part of the eighteenth century. It had been pretty well discontinued by 1820.

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