Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . dhappy gardener; its absence has spoiled manyanother. A more unwise policy than to investin costly trees, shrubs, vines, etc., plant andcare for them in a luxurious manner, and haveall result in a failure through the natural pov-erty and unfitnessof the soil, canIII , ^ scarcely be imag-»*%!iWA; ij med. Instances ofl-^ ^ this kind, however,ai e abundant every-\\ here. It is importanthere, especially forthe beginner, totake a glance at thesoil and compre-hend a few commonterms relatinji:
Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . dhappy gardener; its absence has spoiled manyanother. A more unwise policy than to investin costly trees, shrubs, vines, etc., plant andcare for them in a luxurious manner, and haveall result in a failure through the natural pov-erty and unfitnessof the soil, canIII , ^ scarcely be imag-»*%!iWA; ij med. Instances ofl-^ ^ this kind, however,ai e abundant every-\\ here. It is importanthere, especially forthe beginner, totake a glance at thesoil and compre-hend a few commonterms relatinji: to choosing garden .. ^ . ii. o . land the work wouldPit dug for Tettmg the Soil , , ^ .^i. be incomplete with-out making some thorough tests by digging atintervals of ten yards apart over the plot holesof not less than half a yard square for wellexamining the soil. One of these should appearsomewhat like the accompanying figiu-e. There should be seen in such, at and near thetop, a dark stratum of earth which is called sur-face soil or loam. Beneath this, having an STRATUM OFSURFACE LOAM,. ^//^y unmistakable difference of appearance, maybe seen what is called the subsoil. The darktop soil is, in the main, the product of decayedvegetation and worm ciists, representing theaccumiUation of ages, and is the tnie rootingmedium for plants. Upon the nature anddepth of the surface loam and the porosity ofthe subsoil, depends very much the question asto whether a certain piece is, or is not, suitablegai-den land. What I should regard as the bestsou for the general average of plants is one inwhich the surface stratum, to the depth of ten ormore inches, is a loam of light texture whichwill rub up finely between the fingers andshowing something of an admixture of would be called a strong sandy the surface soil measure but eightinches in depth, it could by improving be madeto answer fairly well. I would greatly prefer afull foot in depth. A subsoil of san
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