On. the road from George to Knysna the first sample collected in the 

 latter Division, No, 1, wa3 taken on the farm Geelhoutboom, or Olyven- 

 hout Kraal, about six miles E.N.E. of Diep River, in the George Division ; 

 No. 2 being taken from Roode Kraal, some 5J miles further eastward*. 

 At Sour Flats, called also Balmoral, No. 5 was collected, from a spot N.E. 

 of the locality where the last mentioned sample was taken, and distant 

 therefrom about ten miles by road. The soil is a light clay, fairly loose 

 in texture; analysis shows it to be poor in all mineral plant food. As a 

 matter of fact, these three soils are all derived from rocks of the Table 

 Mountain series, and the exceedingly poor analytical results are only what 

 one can expect under the circumstances : however, on a small farm, a few 

 hundred yards nearer Knysna, good crops are stated to have been culti- 

 vated for ten years without manure. At Portland, between Balmoral and 

 Knysna, lying about four miles south of the former place, and 19| N.W. 

 of the latter, a similar light clay, sample No. 6, was collected. Here again 

 the analysis yielded poor results, for Portland too lies on Table Mountain 

 sandstooie. No samples were taken between this point and Plettenberg 

 Bay. At the latter place a rather loose clay predominates, but the under- 

 lying rock is Table Mountain sandstone. There is a quantity of rhenoster 

 bush in the vicinity of the local accommodation house, and here a sample 



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of soil, No. 7, very light in colour, was collected from a hill top. About a 

 mile and a half lower down in the valley a sample of " vlei ;; ground, No. 8, 

 was collected on the farm Gauze Vallei. Here and there large patches of 

 conglomerate show through the soil and along the hillsides. Another 

 sample of vlei ground, No. 12, looser and much darker than the last, and 

 an all-round better soil, was taken on the farm Matjesfontein, just after 

 crossing the Keurbooms River, four miles from Ganze Vallei. The organic 

 matter which, moreover, contains a good deal of nitrogen in this sam- 

 ple is higher than in any previously collected in this Division. The soil 

 is well supplied with lime, and has a satisfactory store of potash and phos- 

 phoric oxide. Further east on this farm Matjesfontein, the soil becomes 

 lighter in colour and sandier, and the vlei ground is to a large extent in- 

 termingled with blown sand from the sand dunes along the coast. Of one 

 of these mixed soils a sample, No. 13, was taken, a mile intervening be- 

 tween this and the previous sample : another sample to outward seeming 

 of the same class No. 11, was collected on the farm Witte Drift, about five 

 miles west of No. 13. On all these vlei grounds general cultivation is car- 

 ried on, with fair success, over a large area. At Witte Drift the rhenoster 

 bush is again met with, growing on a rather stiff brown clay soil : of this 



