id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 21022 Russell, Edward J. (Edward John), Sir Lessons on Soil .txt text/plain 29230 2024 88 Rye growing in surface soil, subsoil, and sand . Mustard growing in surface soil, subsoil, and sand . Something in the soil uses up air and makes lime water Water can pass from wet to dry places in the soil, it Plants growing in soils supplied from below with water. 1. Soil contains water, grit or sand, silt, clay, a part that burns dry up very quickly after rain and not to remain wet like a clay field. the rain water soaks through the sand or chalk until it comes to clay Now try the experiment with very dry garden soil: little or no change _Dry powdered soil, sand, clay, leaf mould, seeds. damp soils like loams and clays, while narrow-leaved plants can grow on On sandy soils (the water content being small) the wild plants and On clay soils (the water content being good) wild plants and trees ./cache/21022.txt ./txt/21022.txt