1Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 1 May 1759 (Washington Papers)
), or sainfoin, are similar fodder plants.
2[September 1764] (Washington Papers)
GW tried doggedly to raise sainfoin (
3[Diary entry: 27 September 1764] (Washington Papers)
GW tried doggedly to raise sainfoin (
4April 1786 (Washington Papers)
.... At the latter I found (including what was sowed yesterday and Saturday) 50 rows of Burnet Seed planted along side, and in the same manner of, the rib grass & that they had begun to sow the Sainfoin Seed. Sowing Barley yesterday & this day, at this plantation 30 Rows of which had been put in before I got there every other one of which had a slight sprinkling only of dung not being able to...
5[Diary entry: 19 April 1786] (Washington Papers)
.... At the latter I found (including what was sowed yesterday and Saturday) 50 rows of Burnet Seed planted along side, and in the same manner of, the rib grass & that they had begun to sow the Sainfoin Seed. Sowing Barley yesterday & this day, at this plantation 30 Rows of which had been put in before I got there every other one of which had a slight sprinkling only of dung not being able to...
6From George Washington to Wakelin Welch, 5 August 1786 (Washington Papers)
10 bushels of Sainfoin seeds.
7From George Washington to Arthur Young, 6 August 1786 (Washington Papers)
10 Bushels of Sainfoin Seeds.
8From George Washington to Arthur Young, 15 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
Eight Bushels of Sainfoin seed—all to be in good Sacks.
9Memorandum Books, 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
grew sainfoin,
10From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Lewis, 29 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...to send to Mr. Buchanan for me, I never heard of. The difficulty of getting them here renders it not worth attempting again. I will put into this letter some more seeds of the Spanish Sainfoin lest those formerly sent should have miscarried. The present situation of Europe threatens a war, which if it breaks out will probably be a very general one. France and England are so little in a...