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In Southern California, soil conditions are so varied, 

 that there can be no set rule for its preparation any 

 further than the use of decomposed vegetation, cow 

 and horse manure will apply everywhere. 



Most chemical fertilizers in time leave the soil in 

 an impoverished condition. 



The various fertilizers that will be mentioned in 

 this booklet, are soil builders to a more or less degree. 



Your own experience must determine the one or 

 ones best suited for your use. 



The writer will adhere strictly to the planting and 

 growing conditions for Southern California, as they 

 apply to city homes, and in compiling this booklet 

 has only one aim and thought in mind. That is to 

 endeavor to place before its readers in as plain and 

 clear a manner as possible how to prepare the soil and 

 succeed in the growing of those things the most uni- 

 versally sought for. 



If he has succeeded in placing the subject matter 

 in a way that the reader gets the full value out of it, 

 he will feel that success has crowned his efforts. 



By earnest and diligent application of knowledge 

 acquired only do we succeed. So in the degree that 

 you set yourself about the task of getting into har- 

 mony with nature and nature's ways and wonders, 

 will you have the satisfaction of realizing to the fullest 

 extent what a sublime builder of mind, body and char- 

 acter she is. 



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