Only a small portion of the valley was under cultivation, for the oldest settler had been in only for three years; but it seemed as if every grain sowed had fallen upon good soil and gave promise of the hundredfold.

Wine is like rain: when it falls on the mire it but makes it the fouler, But when it strikes the good soil wakes it to beauty and bloom.

On receiving this piece of intelligence, and considering that the island was blest with a pure and wholesome air, good soil, fine rivers, and many other advantages, Ziehmni resolved to people it and to build a town at Port Trin, and took, great pains to discover the whole of it, and to explore the seas on both sides of Engroveland, or Greenland.

Old Sutton in his decadence had let most of his arable land run to waste, and Anne's job was to make good soil again out of bad.

" "Moorland's good soil enough," said Isak shortly.

The fact that the sand of the sea-shore furnishes a good soil for the pine neither furthers nor prevents a causal knowledge of it.

Here was good soil capable of profitable agriculture.

It rises on good soil to the height of twelve feet, and flowers between August and September.

The face of the hill on the south side of the entrance possesses some good soil; and at the time of our visit* was covered with a profusion of herbage, and studded with groups of banksia, which the colonists call the honeysuckle; the wood of which is useful in ship-building on account of the crooked growth of its stem.

Give a young tree fair play, good soil and abundant air,tend it carefully, in short, and you will have a noble tree.

The royal fern may be transplanted with success if given good soil, sufficient shade and plenty of water.

"Grandfather didn't believe we could manage to get good soil at this season even if we did succeed in digging the hole, but when I make up my mind to do a thing I like to succeed," said Roger triumphantly when they had fitted the sashes on to planks that sloped at the sides so that rain would run off the glass, and called the girls out to admire their result.

He trudged bravely on for hours through a wilderness that seemed to be complete so far as man was concerned, although its character steadily changed, merging into a region of forest and good soil.

Height, 3 ft. Azaleas (Greenhouse).A good soil for these deciduous shrubs is made by mixing a fair quantity of silver sand with good fibrous peat.

The Chrysanthemum will grow in any good mould, a naturally good soil being often preferable to an artificial one.

They are raised from seed sown in a slight heat in March, and planted out at the end of May in any good soil.

They will grow in any good soil from seed sown in autumn and protected during the winter, or they may be increased by division of the roots.

Well-known hardy perennials, and deservedly favourite border plants, which may be grown in any good soil; but to have them to perfection they should be placed in light, loamy ground mixed with a little old manure and sand.

Height, 3 ft. Syringa (Lilac.)There are many choice varieties of these favourite shrubs, but any of them may be grown in a tolerably good soil.

s book has a purpose: it is sent forth as precious seed, with the prayer that it will fall into "good soil" in many hearts and bring forth an hundredfold.

Buthis protectors knew it wellthis good seed which they had sown had fallen on good soil.

[Footnote 65: One is tempted to include here Pliny's observations upon the tests of good soil if only for the sake of his description of one of the sweetest sensations of the farmer every where, the aroma of new ploughed fertile land: "Those unguents which have a taste of earth are better," says Cicero, "than those which smack of saffron," it seeming to him more to the purpose to express himself by the word taste than smell.

The only good soil seen was on the large Piper River, so that the disproportion of land fit for cultivation on this part of the northern shore of Tasmania, with that which is not, is very great.

Then the land-slides take place, which often affect seriously the cultivation, not only by their direct ravages, but by the changes which they make in the water-courses: large tracts of good soil are turned into swamp-land, the rivers are forced to bend out of their direction and to desert places which depended upon them for irrigation.

Ere long, however, he found them a good soil for thankfulness to grow in.