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IN the notice in NATURE, of February 4, of the fourteenth report of the Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm it is suggested that the negative results obtained by us in bastard trenching might have been different had we experimented on vegetables, instead of fruit trees. No doubt the suggestion is correct; and a chance observation last year gave a striking illustration in point. Brussels sprouts were grown in a piece of ground partially occupied by trees; the ground had all been dug, but there were four patches of about four square yards each where it had been practically trenched, by the removal of trees and the digging out of their roots. In each of these patches the sprouts were two to three times larger than those in the intermediate dug ground. Universal experience indicates that a good depth of rich soil is essential for successful vegetable growing; this can only be obtained by trenching and liberal manuring, and nothing in our results should be taken as discountenancing such a practice.
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PICKERING, S. Trenching Ground and Spraying Potatoes. Nature 94, 672 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/094672b0
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