Reminiscence and observation
■ From AG 12 December 1950
Rotation or not?
WE in Britain have a strong belief in changing the ground for successive plantings of one kind of plant or crop. In this respect we differ from dwellers in New Zealand; at any rate this applies to one great horticulturist in New Zealand, who told me, during a visit to his country, that it is firmly believed there that a plant deposits in the soil something which the next generation of the same kind of plant can use to its advantage. My idea has always been that a plant has some power of acceptance or rejection, and that it accepts whatever is beneficial but that whatever it rejects is something not beneficial to it.
This is one of the points about plant culture where it is
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