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taken through the roots from the soil. This condition is especiallytrue in the clay loam soils of the middle west. They should never be watered with any water which contains lime.This is equally as important as the necessity of not planting rhodo-dendrons in a limestone soil. It matters not how much the soil may bechanged in the beds or how much leaf mold may be put in the bedsin which to plant rhododendrons if the water with which they arefrequently soaked comes from a limestone region. Rhododendrons will grow in any good garden soil, but they muchprefer a soil with a good deal of humus in it, and they should be thor-oughly mulched with leaf mold soil which should never be cultivated,but left in its native woodland condition. |
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