A DIFFICULT PAKIHI -WASTELAND OR FARMS?

Abstract

THE ADDISON SOIL at Bald Hill consists of a top layer high in coarse roots, which when dry is light and porous. It will be called the sponge layer. It is of variable thickness (0 to 6 in.) and its boundary with the underlying denser, rather structureless soil is not well defined. This underlying layer is by no means without roots, but often it is drier than either the sponge above or the grit layer below. For the sake of brevity it will be called the pug layer. The grit layer consists of humus-stained quartz grit overlying deeply cemented boulders. .The whole soil - sponge, pug and grit -is 10 in. to 2 ft deep.