Huddersfield Soils
By John Grainger
FOREWORD BY C.E. PEARSON, ESQ., MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE
AND FISHERIES
The soil and the climate are the gardener’s
raw materials, and at the same time the two first essentials
without which no form of production can be contemplated.
Previous text-books dealing with these two subjects are
of necessity of a general nature, and yet we all know only
too well what great variations can occur in even a small
locality. The study of local soils and local climate will
always reveal points of considerable interest to anyone
who wishes to pursue the local application of general principles.
At any time local knowledge is of importance. In wartime
it becomes of greater importance, and in this work the Author
gives us an insight into the practical value of local scientific
exploration. Apart from this, the book is attractively written
and pleasantly arranged, and should prove of considerable
importance to all those enthusiastic gardeners in the Huddersfield
area, which has for a considerable number of years been
renowned for the high standard of its domestic horticulture.
The maintenance of this high standard and its extension
towards the ideal where it will cover the whole of the area,
is of the most vital concern at the present moment and should
be the aim of all those who are interested in gardening.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My staff at the Tolson Memorial Museum, and particularly
my colleagues, Mr. E.W. Aubrook and Miss A. Falck, have
given valued help in the preparation of this handbook. Mr.
C. Ridgewick, of Honley, has helped with information, and
Mr. M.D. Barnes of Huddersfield, with wireworm counts. Mr.
F.W. Martin, of the Huddersfield Parks, and Mr. T.F. Armstrong,
of Ravensknowle Park, have supplied many practical details,
and Messrs. C.E. Pearson and D.V. Ingram, of the Ministry
of Agriculture, have given helpful criticism.
J.G.
February 1942.
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