38 CALIFORNIA VEGETABLES 



of well-composted and decayed manure, which will not only feed 

 the plants but will also reform its texture and transform the coarse 

 sand into a rich garden soil, kind in cultivation and prodigious in its 

 yield of succulent vegetables, for sand is best of all materials for 

 free and rapid root development. 



The treatment of such soil is directly opposite that prescribed 

 for adobe. All coarse materials must go through composting, 

 which will be described in another chapter. The garden should be 

 cleared of all its own coarse refuse and only fine compost or com- 

 mercial fertilizers used upon it. Both of these act benignly upon 

 its texture. 



