DRAINAGE.
# However high and apparently dry a situation may appear, it is quite possible that it requires to be drained. It should, therefore, be the first care of the florist to make drains from the highest part of the ground to the lowest, three feet from the surface, dug the shape of a V ; and if there be no outlet at the lowest part, to dig a hole, or well, or pond, into which all thes>e should lead, even when there ia no apparent means of getting rid of tho water. At the bottom of these drains a row of common 2-inch earthern pipes may be placed, end to end, and covered up again with the soil. These are too deep to cause any danger of disturbance in ordinary operations ; and the effect is to let air into the soil, if there be no surplus moisture ; and to prevent the lodgment of water anywhere. About a rod apart, in parallel lines, will bo sufficiently close for the drains, and a larger drain along the bottom, or a ditch, may lead at once to the outlet or the receptacle for the water.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1242, 18 September 1875, Page 18
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191DRAINAGE. Otago Witness, Issue 1242, 18 September 1875, Page 18
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