TREES IN POOR SOILS 17 



not so luxuriantly as on better soils, but some classes 

 are especially successful on poor land. There are 

 the Cistuses and Heaths, with Lavender and Rose- 

 mary, in the drier parts, and in the wetter places 

 Kaltnias, Andromedas, Rhododendrons, Ledums^ Per- 

 mettyas, and Vacciniums, with the Candleberry Gale 

 and the native Bog Myrtle. These, which are 

 usually classed as peat shrubs, will succeed in any 

 sandy soil with the addition of leaf-mould, and are 

 among the most interesting and beautiful of our 

 garden shrubs. 



Those who garden on poor and dry soils should 

 remember that though their ground has drawbacks 

 it has also some compensations. Such soils do not 

 dry in cracks and open fissures in hot weather, and 

 do not present a surface of soapy slides in wet ; 

 they can be worked at all times of the year, except 

 in hard frost ; they are easy to hoe and keep clean 

 of weeds and are pleasant and easy to work. They 

 correct the tendency of stony soils to the making 

 of a quantity of coarse rank growth, and they 

 encourage the production of a quantity of flowers 

 of good colour. 



