Berlin soils are fine-textured soils on glaciolacustrine terraces. Cheshire, Holyoke, Ludlow, Menlo, Watchaug, Wethersfield, Wilbraham and Yalesville soils are on nearby till plains, hills, and drumlins. Ellington soils are moderately well drained. Well drained Hartford soils, excessively drained Penwood soils, and somewhat excessively drained Manchester soils are terrace associates. Raypol, Raynham and Walpole soils are poorly drained soils in low areas.
Surface runoff is slow to medium.
Permeability is moderate or moderately rapid in the solum and rapid or very rapid in the substratum. Common crops are silage corn, vegetables, tobacco and nursery stock. Some areas are wooded or used for community development. Common trees are white, black and red oak, hickory, gray birch, white pine, hemlock and white ash. The series is of moderate extent.