It was eventually made clear that it belonged to the tender Rubus Idoeua class, and, therefore, was not adapted to general cultivation, especially on light soils, and under sunny skies.
As practically employed, I regard quick, stimulating manures, like aguno, very injurious to light soils.
Chilensis with our native species--the President Wilder proves this--but few of such products are adapted to the country at large, and they will be almost sure to falter on light soils.
In the garden, light soils can be given a much more stable and productive character by covering them with clay to the depth of one or two inches every fall, and then plowing it in.
On light soils apply in spring four pounds of superphosphate of lime and two pounds of sulphate of potash.
On light soils, in a sufficiently dry condition, the dibber or planting stick may be used, but on heavy ground it is not satisfactory.
When seed is sown on light soils a moderate firming with the back of the spade may be desirable, but generally speaking it is sufficient to cover the seed lightly, and so leave it.
In a dry season, and especially on light soils, there must be a bountiful supply of soft water, alternated every few days with the manure water already alluded to.
Sow also Early Horn carrot; Early Purple-top Munich turnip; onions for a full crop in light soils, with a few leeks and some parsley.
Transplant herbaceous plants in light soils, if not done in autumn; also deciduous trees, shrubs and hedges.
Flower-beds on light soils may be dug up so as to forward the work of the coming busy spring season.
They should be planted 4 feet apart, either immediately after flowering or in very early autumn, both flourishing best on light soils.
Evergreen or Holm Oak and Arbutus are excellent in the south of England, enjoying the warmth and winter dryness of light soils.
Light soils=, soils which are loose and open and easy to work.
A steep, abrupt mouldboard is adapted to light soilsand to the heavier soils when they are comparatively dry.
The distance apart varies from twenty-five feet in heavy soils to over two hundred feet in light soils.
On light soils, and where the plants are grown in beds instead of narrow rows, new beds should be set out every alternate year.
Each division will make a new, vigorous plant, which should be set out so that the bud or crown is three inches below the surface in light soils, and two inches in heavy soils.
But they can scarcely be made to thrive on light soils or very far to the south.
Indeed, as I have said, I have had excellent success by sowing the seed early in September on light soils, and letting the plants grow during all the mild days of fall, winter, and early spring.
It is thus a more steady and lasting benefit, especially in light soils, out of which ordinary vegetable manures disappear too rapidly.
Peruvian Guano, so serviceable in its first applications to light soils, may be composted with muck to the greatest advantage.
As an agricultural plant its position is in light soils, for which it is usually mixed with other clovers and grasses in varied proportions.
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