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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September. 1911 



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After the Revolution 



The snow lies thick on Valley Forge 



The ice on the Delaware, 

 But the old dead soldiers of King George 



They neither know nor care — 



* * *# * * * * 

 They icill not stir when the drifts are gone 



Or the ice melts out of the bay, 

 And the men that served with Washington 

 Lie all as still as they. 



* # * * * * * * 

 Each for his land, in a fair fight, 



Encountered, strove, and died, 

 And the kindly earth that knows no spite 

 Covers them side by side. 



She is loo busy to think of war 



She has all the world to make gay, 



And, behold, the yearly flowers are 



Where they were in our fathers' day. 



Golden rod by the pasture-wall 

 When the columbine is dead, 



And the sumach leaves that turn, in fall, 

 Red as the blood they shed. 



Copyright, 1911. by Rudyard Kipling. 



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Draining a Wet Garden 



TO BE productive, garden soil must allow 

 the water to filter through it within ten or 

 twelve hours after each rainfall, leaving it moist 

 and crumbly. Soil with a porous substratum 

 accomplishes this, but if your garden tract is 

 saturated for long periods after rain it is unfit for 

 garden crops. You will have to drain it arti- 

 ficially. If the ground is low, receiving the sur- 

 face flow of the surrounding land, or if it has a 

 hard, almost impervious, subsoil, the drains should 

 be placed about three feet below the surface where 

 vegetables are to be grown and one foot deeper in a 

 fruit garden. 



By placing the drains on a line with hard pan or 

 other impervious substratum of soil where it oc- 

 curs, the water can be readily carried off from the 

 more porous upper soil. 



Before doing anything however, determine the 

 drainage outlet. This may be an open ditch or 

 a main drain through adjacent land. The open 

 ditch must be free of growth and its bed must 

 be lower than all tributary drains. The stoppage 

 of a covered drain is indicated by wet land above 

 it. This may be righted by opening the drain 

 where the trouble is and running rods up the pipe 

 in both directions. In drains that have been 

 down for years, an accumulation of roots or sand 

 in one place may disorder the whole system. 



Having determined the outlet drains, the next 

 important step is the extent and direction of drains 

 to be used in the garden. For a small garden fifty 

 feet square a line of pipe four inches in diameter laid 

 through its lowest part should insure the proper 

 dryness. In a large garden, with heavy wet soil, 

 the drains should be at least thirty feet apart, or 

 a smaller drain may connect the main drain at 

 such a point as will equalize the drainage. 



All drains must follow the course of natural 

 drainage; that is, they must correspond to the 

 general slope of the land and where they connect 

 with others, the angle of juncture should offer 

 least resistance to the flow of the water. 



For all ordinary garden purposes, use four-inch 

 tile. 



In preparing the bed of the drain, mark its 

 general direction on the surface of the ground, 

 avoiding angles and short curves. Begin digging 

 at the proposed outlet and continue backward 

 along the proposed course. Remove the earth 

 for a part of the depth only, then go over the course 

 and remove the rest. The bed of the drain should 



Four-inch tile, with which good modern drainage 

 is done 



Old-fashioned horseshoe tile 



Drain made from hemlock boards 



