. Monthly lectures delivered at School of Horticulture by various specialists during 1892-1893. Horticulture. 89 the fruit industry, and is a testimony to the sturdiness, both of the culturists and the soil they have so skilfully wrested from obscurity. They have done much with water in the way of reducing soils, whose latent strength would never have been available in any other way, to a state wherein the tender rootlets of both tree and herb could secure their proper sustenance, but is not a word of caution needful? To some I feel sure there is danger not in using too little but too much wat
. Monthly lectures delivered at School of Horticulture by various specialists during 1892-1893. Horticulture. 89 the fruit industry, and is a testimony to the sturdiness, both of the culturists and the soil they have so skilfully wrested from obscurity. They have done much with water in the way of reducing soils, whose latent strength would never have been available in any other way, to a state wherein the tender rootlets of both tree and herb could secure their proper sustenance, but is not a word of caution needful? To some I feel sure there is danger not in using too little but too much water. Were fruit trees lovers of much moisture, as are willows, then the case would be very different. It needs but little in the way of argument after all that practical men have written and done to make plain the need in some form or other, when a young man takes upon himself to aim at becoming a successful tiUer of the soil. In some positions he may dispense with artificial drainage, but not necessarily so because his block is on a hill-side ; it may be the more necessary on that account. There are of course many ways of carrying ofE the soakage :â(1) The open trench; (2) the same half-filled with stones topped by soil; (3) the trench and drain pipe styles combined thus:â Example of Appeovbd n Soil REPIACED LlTT£R B Stones Pjpe â Well rammed. About 2J inches in size. Agricultural pipe resting on the clay. This is without doubt the best and most reliable of drains. Some people who are but little suited to bring even a small area into a state of culture err by takingâsay, for themâthe enormous quantity of 200 or more acres (much of it very poor and sour) in various parts of the colony. They " ring " and burn the trees, and distress all lovers of the beautiful by the mischief effected, and do not in anv way compensate for it by actual culture or other real improvement. And they are at last worn out and dispirited, poverty-struck and old, with a feeling t
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