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Excerpt from The Small Fruits, And, the Birds of Nebraska As the two things most essential to plant life are air and water, so in the preparation of the soil the prime object should be to so pre pare it as to retain all the moisture possible. All living plants con tain a very large per cent of water. For instance, the potato contains nearly 75 per cent, while experiments have developed the fact that an ash tree cut down in January contained 29 per cent of water, maple 34 per cent, and fir 53 per cent. The same kinds of trees felled early in April contained 39, 40, and 61 per cent respectively. This water must come from the soil, and as the roots are the feeders that convey it to the plant or body of the tree, the most essential thing is the feed ing ground of the roots. 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.

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