Different  kinds  of  fruits  do  better  in  certain  kinds  of  soil.  For
instance,  pears  do  best  in  iron  clay  soil;  apples  prefer  a  loam,
and  prunes,  peaches  and  cherries,  as  well  as  the  nut-bearing
trees,  a  gravelly  loam ;  but  any  soil  can  be  made  available,  pro-
vided it  is  not  underlaid  with  hard  pan.  Such  soil  is  to  be
shunned,  as  it  forms  a  watershed  and  is  impenetrable  to  the
roots,  which  will  spread  out  on  this  hardpan  and,  as  trees  do  not
like  to  have  their  feet  (roots)  in  the  water,  become  diseased  and
finally  die.
DYNAMITING  .SOILS.
To  dynamite  such  soils,  which  is  the  only  way  to  aerate  it,  is
rather  expensive,  and  as  long  as  we  have  plenty  of  good  soil
available  we  shall  leave  this  work  to  future  generations,  although
such  soils  properly  dynamited,  would  make  an  excellent  orchard.
