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success which has attended the tropical groupings originated and 
completed by Mr. Guilfoyle near the large conservatory in the 
Botanic Gardens, where he took particular care to introduce an 
artificial clay base, thus :— 
EXAMPLE oF So1L witH CLAY BASE. 
een 
TEL che a 
= Se Se 
SS 
A Ctay B Loam 
The true culturist must act on the same principle as the wise 
man does, who, being the owner of a horse, feeds him well to 
insure good and cheerful service. The soil will respond like a 
living creature to a little generosity on the part of its owner in 
the way of manure, restoring those constituents taken off or 
exhausted by continual cropping. There are men who trya little 
“economy” by starving the land, leaving some other people a 
cruel inheritance later on, discreditable to the first and ruinous to 
the second. 
The advantage of securing classified locations for the various 
plants to succeed best in is of course a well-understood matter 
with the practised grower, who would be almost sure to act some- 
what as shown in the accompanying table :— 
Position. Suitability. Added Note. 
1,—Undulating land .. | Preferable for gardens generally— 
flowers, fruits, vegetables, farm 
crops, &c. 
Interchangeable to 
2.—Hill-sides, north and | Best adapted for vines, fruits, as some extent, ac- 
west aspects princi- apricots, peach, plum, orange, cording to depth of 
pally lemon, and strawberry soil, drainage, water’ 
: : supply, &c. 
3.—Rich valleysand semi- | Well adapted for farm and garden 
flat country produce, root crops, red and black 
‘currant, gooseberry, &c. 
The astonishing success which has followed the well-directed 
efforts of the Messrs. Chaffey at Mildura, and those of the 
pioneers of the Goulburn Valley districts, goes to prove the value 
of rightly-conceived plans, combined with irrigation, as affecting 
