Marlow soils are in a drainage sequence with the moderately well drained Peru soils, somewhat poorly drained Colonel soils, somewhat poorly drained and poorly drained Pillsbury soils, and very poorly drained Peacham soils. Berkshire and Sunapee soils do not have densic materials in the substratum. Hermon and Monadnock soils have coarser substrata with rapid or moderately rapid permeability. Lyman and Tunbridge soils are on bedrock controlled uplands. Lyman soils have bedrock within a depth of 20 inches and the Tunbridge soils are moderately deep to bedrock.
Permeability is moderate in the solum and moderately slow to slow in the densic materials.
Areas cleared of stones are used mainly for hay and pasture and some cultivated crops. In forested area, the principal species are sugar maple, eastern white pine, balsam fir, red spruce, white spruce, white ash, yellow birch, paper birch, and red pine. The series is extensive. Cheshire County, New Hampshire, 1939. Marlow soils were formerly classified as Typic Fragiorthods and more recently as Typic Haplorthods.