How to manage a Garden 



and character of the water-supply. There is at the present 

 time much land in various parts of the country which would 

 grow abundant crops but for shortage in the water-supply. 

 In many cases it is but true to add that water could be 

 procured were the necessary outlay forthcoming ; but there 

 is, nevertheless, much land which cannot be made self- 

 supporting in the matter of water, and unless the owner 

 goes to great expense to obtain water from a distance, or 

 the local authorities find, after the usual volume of corre- 

 spondence, that the duty really devolves on them, the 

 difficulty of gardening on the site will remain. If a good 

 running stream be near at hand, the installation of a ram 

 will be the most effective method of dealing with the 

 difficulty. As, however, the question of water-supply will 

 be fully dealt with in another chapter, we simply point to 

 the necessity of including this item in the calculations 

 whilst choosing a site. 



The SoU. 



Another factor, which should perhaps loom still more 

 largely before the mind of the person choosing a site, is 

 the character of the soil. Unless the labour of digging 

 and trenching is intensely enjoyed, and time is of but 

 secondary importance, I should certainly not advise that 

 a very heavy soil be chosen. To say that a heavy soil 

 requires twice the amount of labour to bring it into a 

 state suitable for cropping that would be necessary for 

 a light soil is no exaggeration. The assertion errs rather 

 on the side of mildness. Only those who have performed 

 the work of breaking up a clay soil, and forcing it to yield 

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