pond with those of the above mentioned profile. A summary of the data 

 from locahties i and 2 is given in Table 2. 



In this soil many roots occur down to 50 cm (the designation 'sub-soil' 

 used in table 2 is therefore wrong as to defmition, it only refers to colour). 

 The apparent water capacity of the soil dealt with in Fig. 5 and Table 2 

 is about 70 mm of rain because the computation includes the pan and the 

 uppermost 10 cm of the sub-soil. 



The march of water content in the horizons during the summers of 1953 

 and 1955 was very similar to those of the locahty Rosenholm, but in 

 Kompedal the decline set in more simultaneously and more uniformly in 

 the different horizons, probably because of the more shallow root system 

 and therefore more equable temperature and root density in the soil of the 

 root volume. 



APR. MAY 



JUNE 



JULY 



AUG. 



SEPT. 



Fig. 5. The march of water content during the summers 1953 and 1955 in different 

 horizons of the soil at Kompedal. Numbers refer to horizons in Table 2. 



