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kind of garden will not require less labour 
than the formal one, although it is work of a 
different kind. There will be no box to clip or 
paths to make tidy, or the grass edges of the 
beds to keep evenly cut, but instead there will 
be a great deal of weeding and care, lest the 
plants should overgrow and hurt each other. 
The climbers, instead of being planted on poles, 
arches, or walls, can be put beside trees for sup¬ 
port, but they will require tying up all the same, 
or a high wind would come and blow them 
away or break them down before they have got 
firm hold of the tree stem. Bulbs, instead of 
being planted in beds, can be put into the grass 
and allowed to find their way to the sunshine 
with the blades of grass around them. The 
leaves of the bulbs must be left to wither, and 
not cut off as soon as the flowers are over, 
even though they may look untidy. Larger 
plants can be admitted, as there will be no fear 
of their reaching over the edge of the bed and 
encroaching on the path. Instead of arranging 
the various plants at even distances or in rows, 
they can be placed so as to look as if they were 
growing there naturally. If, by chance, there 
is a stump of a tree, climbers can be made to 
trail over it, or, if it is very old and tumbled 
down, ferns could grow from among the decay¬ 
ing bark. If there are stones, instead of clearing 
