1 8 GARDEN PLANNING 



will be found in greater quantity at the lower 

 levels, particularly if the land has been in 

 cultivation. 



Light, sandy soils suffer from drought, and 

 involve labour and expense in heavy manuring. 

 Much may be done by the gardener to improve 

 a naturally undesirable soil. Light soils may 

 be treated with clay or muck, and clay 

 soils with sand, ashes, and other light, porous 

 materials. By these additions the nature 

 of the surface layer may be modified and 

 rendered more amenable to tillage; but no 

 treatment of the surface will meet the case if 

 the subsoil is unsuitable. These operations 

 necessarily imply outlay, which in a large 

 garden may be a heavy one. It is therefore 

 advisable, when the purchaser has a choice 

 of sites, to select one on which the soil is neither 

 too heavy nor too light. 



Another point in the selection of a site is to 

 avoid made ground the composition of which 

 may be anything from gas lime to meat tins. 

 A site of this kind would afford many un- 

 pleasant surprises to the gardener, and might 

 be perfectly hopeless for horticulture. Made 

 ground which has long remained undisturbed - 



