Loams [noun]

It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.

The print of steel-rimmed hoofs showed in the soft loam as plainly as a moccasin-track in virgin snow.

In the valleys the land is a deep alluvial loam, easily worked, producing bountiful crops of the finest leaf tobacco.

The planters select a deep black loam or tenacious clay, or even loams mixed with sand.

For Connecticut seed leaf a light moist loam is the proper soil.

The Cayenne cane yields best, and thrives in low grounds, the soil a mixture of sand and loam.

Over the greater part of the country the soil is light reddish loam; in the eastern plains it is a heavy black loam.

With a sigh of content he stretched himself on the sun-warmed loam.

The trees should be potted in good rich soil, preferably the best garden loam.

The soil of the tract commanded is for the most part a light sandy loam, and in years of good rainfall it repays dry cultivation.