. Monthly lectures delivered at School of Horticulture by various specialists during 1892-1893. Horticulture. 88 success whicli has attended the tropical groupings originated and completed by Mr. Guilfoyle near the large conservatory in the Botanic Gardens, where he took particular care to introduce an artificial clay base, thus :— Example op Soil with Clat A Clay. B Loam. The true culturist must act on the same principle as the wise man does, who, being the owner of a horse, feeds him well to insure good and cheerful service. The soil will respond like a living creature to a little gen
. Monthly lectures delivered at School of Horticulture by various specialists during 1892-1893. Horticulture. 88 success whicli has attended the tropical groupings originated and completed by Mr. Guilfoyle near the large conservatory in the Botanic Gardens, where he took particular care to introduce an artificial clay base, thus :— Example op Soil with Clat A Clay. B Loam. The true culturist must act on the same principle as the wise man does, who, being the owner of a horse, feeds him well to insure good and cheerful service. The soil will respond like a living creature to a little generosity on the part of its owner in the way of manure, restoring those constituents taken off or exhausted by continual cropping. There are men who try a little " economy" by starving the land, leaving some other people a cruel inheritance later on, discreditable to the first and ruinous to the second. The advantage of securing classified locations for the various plants to succeed best in is of course a well-understood matter with the practised grower, who would be almost sure to act some- what as shown in the accompanying table:— Fosition. 1.—Undulating land .. 2.—Hill-sides, north and west aspects princi- pally 3.—Rich valleys and semi- flat oountiy Suitability. Preferable for gardens generally— flowers, fruits, vegetables, farm crops, &c. Best adapted for vines, fruits, as apricots, peach, plum, orange, lemon, and strawberry Well adapted for farm and garden produce, root crops, red and black currant, gooseberry, &c. Added Note. Interchangeable tO' some extent, ac- cording to depth of soil, drainage, water- supply, &o. The astonishing success which has followed the well-directed efforts of the Messrs. Chaffey at Mildura, and those of the pioneers of the Goulburn Valley districts, goes to prove the value of rightly-conceived plans, combined with irrigation, as affecting. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images tha
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