. E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. -VP-. In such, thev gi-ow readily, and attain i-o great perfection of bloom, with but little care; but i\ is hai'dly necessary to say, that fe-\v persons have just such a soil, nor is it possible often for the cultivator to have'much'choice. He must take such soil as he has, and make the most of it, and by the application of proper manm'es, or sand or clay, he can bri
. E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. -VP-. In such, thev gi-ow readily, and attain i-o great perfection of bloom, with but little care; but i\ is hai'dly necessary to say, that fe-\v persons have just such a soil, nor is it possible often for the cultivator to have'much'choice. He must take such soil as he has, and make the most of it, and by the application of proper manm'es, or sand or clay, he can bring it to such a condition ti as to answer^all the purposes of a flower-garden. Moving large masses of soil is verj' expen- Lr sive; and writers who advise the addition of rich loam seem not to be av> ure of tLe diificulty 7 , of procuring it, or the expense and labor attending the same. For the complete garden of the '»* wealthv, this may and should be done; but the mass of cultivators need not fear of obtain- ino" cQod resul::s'without it. Deep and thorough trenching in the autumn, if possible, and the application of ^ery old decayed manure or leaf-mould, will give the amtiteur a well- Si prepared and suitable soil. If the situation of the garden is low or damp, fii-st of all it should be well drained, ror, m addition to the injury from excessive moisture, such soils are cold, and the young plants are injured by early frosts, when they would escape damage in one of the opposite character: neither should the situation be too dry, as, in thL'- "^<e, the I i plants would suffer in summer, and present a meagi-e in place of a vigorous blou Vhere V the soil is too light, a thin layer of clay, if to be had, spread over the surface in tijo«t»tumn. ; 1 and dug in, after being pulverized by the winter frosts, in the spring, is the best remedy. ^ f This, Avith the use of old manm-e, — that which has lain a year or more, and been frequently 'i , ' turned over till it
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