The woman's book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 51
h soil as isfound in a given garden, and must fore-go any radical and expensive experi-ments in special soils. If the soil isheavy and hard to work, caking on dry- ficial. Complete fertilizers com-pounded especially for garden purposesoffer also a ready means of enrichingthe soil. Rotted cow manure… … Clematis or Virgins Bower. ing up, it may be inexpensively light-ened by mixing in sifted coal-ashes.Such soils are also greatly benefitedby liberal supplies of well-rotted stablemanure. Sometimes a soil is verysandy and may be benefited by addi-tions of heavy loam ; and usually humusin the way of…
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