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Identifier: outing51newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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How to Make a Garden 737 found indifferently meet for making thefirst man. Some must have been moresuitable than others, and one must stilltouch ones clay with a difference. But itis comforting to reflect that the dust ofEden had not to be prepared three yearsbefore. There it was, all ready when itwas wanted. Similarly a light soil, with aporous sub-soil, may be prepared in springfor that years garden. But a heavy claysoil ought always to be—to have been!—prepared in the fall. If, however, thegarden has an impervious sub-soil, therearises the necessity for artificial drainage.The gardener with his head in the clouds,hidden in a crowd of stars, has, like aman of stars, to have his feet on the earthand indeed, in impervious sub-soil condi-tions, under the earth. In the midst of hismeditations on violets he must managedrainage tiles of suitable size to take thewater away rapidly, and he must lay themso as to get a good delivery at the outlet. For surface tiling two and one-half-incht

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