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become weak, and of small growth. Such lands 

 may be improved by lime and ashes. The soil on 

 which I rely, and, from the experience of seven or 

 eight years, place the greatest confidence in, is of a 

 grayish black, breaking up into square lumps in 

 cultivation, deep, and running into a reddish yellow 

 subsoil, friable like the surface in working, and 

 generally resting on limestone rock. On such soils, 

 with proper cultivation, I have never known the 

 vine to fail." 



Mr. N. Longworth, in a communication to the 

 Cincinnati Horticultural Society, says : " In my 

 vineyards, at Tusculum, the rot has j)revailed, and 

 this season two-thirds of the crop w^as lost. The 

 subsoil was a stiff clay, and to this fact I chiefly 

 attribute it. Among my vines near the foot of tho 

 hill, where the ground was more porous, there was 

 less rot, and at the bottom, or near it, where the rain 

 immediately sank deep into the earth, there was no 

 rot. And this I have found to be the case also at 

 other vineyards. Where the subsoil was a compact 

 clay, it prevailed ; where it was mixed with sand or 

 gravel, or where it was porous, there was no rot." 



The Peach and Nectarine delight in a deep loamy 

 sand, but will succeed in almost any light soil. In 

 the north, the soil should not be so generous as to 

 induce too free a growth. 



