THE GARDENING WORLD. 
January 16, 1909. 
Mother method would be to make a low 
<r e behind every row of Strawberries to 
planted. These ridges, ot course, would 
- on a smaller scale than the terraces, but 
each case the idea is partly to give shel- 
and to expose the plants more fully to 
sun. Either of these plans would not 
• ail a great deal of labour, and it might 
-n be tried on a small scale to see how 
will act for a year or two. Plant the 
■ awberries in lines lengthways along the 
ipes, that is, east and west. Sir Joseph 
ixton is not a very early variety, and you 
ght try Royal Sovereign in its place, or, 
all events, employ it in your new planta- 
n in order to test its value in your 
ality alongside of those you know better. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
53. Sandy Garden on a Slope. 
fur garden is rather lijht and sandy, 
: i in summer requires a lot of water to 
make the plants grow. The higher part is 
planted or sown with various flowers in 
summer, and I want to keep the vegetables 
entirely to the lower part away from the 
house. Do you think it possible to improve 
a garden of this sort so that flower\ and 
vegetables give better results without so 
much watering? (G. M. W., Essex.) 
If you can get a sufficient quantity of old 
bricks at reasonable cost you could build a 
retaining wall across the garden at the point 
where you intend to separate the vegetables 
from the flowers. Some of the bricks should be 
placed in such a way that they would project 
into the soil above the wall and thus serve to 
link the wall with the soil to be described. 
Then as a practical method of working 
that would save you a deal of labour, 
remove the top spit of good soil or such of 
it as may be considered worth keeping sepa¬ 
rate and have it wheeled to one side of the 
ground where you would finally finish up. 
Then from the lower side of the wall do the 
same, and you will have the subsoil for fill¬ 
ing up the gap on the upper side of the wall. 
If you do this in trenches of moderate width 
the work can be carried on almost like 
trenching, the idea being to get the soil 
from the lower side of the wall to fill up 
the space on the higher side in order to get 
both pieces of the ground more nearly on a 
level. Then in commencing the second 
trench the good soil can be thrown into the 
first one and thereby retained for use. The 
surface soil off the third trench may be 
thrown into the second, and so on until the 
whole piece has been gone over. 
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