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The accompanying table may offer a suggestive idea or so toa 
young intending culturist :— 
Quality. Suited for— Improved by— Other remarks, 
1,—Sandy loam, | Nursery, garden | Bone-dust,lime, phos- | As seen on th 
clay base flowers, lawns, vege- | phates, * yiver- ank | side of River oe 
2.—Red friable and 
tables, fruit trees 
All garden produce, 
soil, vegetable decay 
As in No. 1, except 
Such are found in 
dark loams,| fruit trees, farm] river-bank goil Gippsland, &c. 
clay base crops, &c, Pieadnencs, Hietlee 
berg, and Goulburn 
Valley. 
3.—Heavy loam, | Fruit trees, vege- | Sand, lime, bone-dust,| As at Box Hill, Don- 
clay base, | tables (much stir-| vegetable decay caster, Barrabool 
black, heavy, | ring for root crops) Hills, and also freely 
ane strong north side of Yarra. 
Same as for No. 1, 
except bone-dust 
and lime 
4,—Limestone and 
marl, some- 
times clay base 
Vines, fruit trees (if 
clay below), brassica 
family, beans, &c, 
As at Geelong, 
Western Port, &c., 
western district near 
coast. 
5.—Yellow clay and | When improved 
Lime, sand, wood ash, | Special need of drain- 
heavy reten-| fruit trees, as pears, | vegetable decay age, exposure to sun, 
tive soils gene- | apples, corn, &c. &e. 
rally 
.—Sandy and very | Vegetables and quick- | Lime, bone - dust, | As near sea coasts and 
light | soils, | growing succulent| heavyloam andclay,| much on south side 
wanting in| crops generally also river-bank and | of River Yarra. 
substance other good soils 
Norz.—All (1 to 6) greatly improved by stable or farm-yard manure. 
The task of manuring sandy land with clay, and vice versa, is 
one which would well repay a grower, for, in the first case, the 
free working which the sand insures and the added strength 
given by the clay to the poor baseless sand should prove the 
value of intelligent thought in this respect. Such is frequently 
done in Britain, and should be arranged here more generally than 
now. Mr. Guilfoyle has very greatly improved some intractable 
and almost unworkable land by the use of sand freely applied in 
parts of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens. Moreover, I feel assured 
that besides the changeful effect on the soil the sand freely used 
as a dressing re vines affected with Phylloxera vastatrix would 
be likely to prove helpful, seeing that the disease is stated not to 
attack vines growing on sandy land. It would be interesting if 
this statement could be confirmed by tests made at various 
centres. 
The trenching in of clay to poor Caulfield sand, as suggested 
by the writer to a friend who was about to make a garden, was 
adopted with good results in growth as affecting apple, pear, and 
other fruit trees. In this connexion, I would point tothe pronounced 
