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such a manner that good cultivation can bo given with a horse 

 and with horse tools. The mistake is often made of jumb- 

 ling up a garden in such a way that hand cultivation is re- 

 (juired, and this has a tendency to bring about the neglect 

 of the garden concerning which w^e complain. 



A word should also be said in regard to drainage. The 

 garden should have good sub-drainage. Of course this is 

 true of any other agricultural land, but it is more especially 

 required for trees and vines, because the}^ send their roots to 

 great depths. If the sub-soil is cold and Avet, therefore, a 

 good growth of trees cannot be expected. In the matter 

 of fertilizino; the soil no ii^eneral rule can be given. Barn- 

 yard manure is the best general amendment to most soils, 

 but where humus can be sup})lied in sufficient (juantity by 

 other means, the liberal use of commercial fertilizers should 

 be encouraged. A mixture containing equal parts of ground 

 bone, muriate of potash and nitrate of soda may safely be 

 applied at the rate of fifteen hundred to two thousand pounds 

 to the acre annually. In case nitrogen is supplied by the 

 growth of leguminous crops or the application of barnyard 

 fertilizer, the amount of sodium nitrate may be materially 

 cut down. 



