144 'GROUND FOR A GARDEN. 



"grateful soil." You can bring it up to any 

 degree of fertility, for such portion of the manure 

 dug or ploughed in this year, that is not exhaust- 

 ed by the growth of crops, remains in the soil 

 for use the following season. 



Such land is like a good investment that 

 yields its interest every year, and at the sam<; 

 time is growing more valuable. Only by over 

 cropping and weed-growing, and by under- 

 feeding can such land be impoverished. Yet 

 you will often find ground of this character 

 utterly run out, poor as the spendthrift sandy 

 soils first described, and this because there are 

 so many people, who, in accordance with the 

 old adage, will " ride a willing horse to death." 

 But even when so reduced, I would take such a 

 soil in preference to any other, in view of its 

 grateful character, its saving qualities, so to 

 spea'c, and its readiness to make liberal return 

 for liberal treatment. 



