Excerpt from The Gardener's Assistant, Vol. 4: A Practical and Scientific Exposition of the Art of Gardening in All Its Branches The choice of soil is affected by three con siderations: the quality of the soil itself, the nature of the subsoil, and the position with reference to the mansion, as already indicated. It may fortunately happen that a good soil and subsoil exist in the most desirable situation, and when this is the case, the matter of course is easily settled. But the situation and subsoil may be good, whilst the top-soil is bad, when it may be a question whether the two good qualities should not be taken advantage of, and the top-soil improved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.