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There are gardens that take care of 
themselves. Almost every one of the 
beautiful things that live in our gardens 
grows wild somewhere. Many, of course, 
are improved by care of some sort. 
Yet, there remains a large number of 
thoroughly important and delightful 
plants which cannot honestly be said to 
receive any improvement whatever from 
cultivation. 
The Labor Saving Secret 
To make a labor-free garden, first con- 
sider carefully your location as to 
drainage (sand, clay, etc.); normal rain- 
fall or local water springs; richness and 
acidity; and the amount of sunlight. 
Then plant in any given location only 
such material from the accompanying 
lists that thrives in that particular spot. 
Do not attempt to persuade a misfit to 
survive. If this rule leaves you with the 
kind of garden you do not want, then 
try permanent changes such as lighten- 
ing clay soil with cinders and sand, 
or add body to sandy soil with peat 
moss. Acidity can be controlled with 
applications of lime or of sulphur. But 
treat large sections of the garden as a 
unit—do not attempt to grow acid and 
sweet-soil plants side by side. Put each 
kind together under uniform treatment. 
That's all there is to it, and you have 
saved ninety per cent of your labor and 
your failures. 
Selecting the Best Kinds 
Too many trees spoil a garden, so while 
most trees need no care, pick few and 
mostly medium sized or small kinds and 
that give some bloom or are excep- 
tionally handsome. 
The Shrub beds should be deeply dug, 
drained and permanently improved. 
The same with Perennial beds. Select 
varieties that give the most show of 
flowers over the longest period. But 
confine selections to the lists at the 
left. For fuller descriptions, photos, etc., 
find it in the descriptive part of this 
Guide (index on page 2). 
A Word of Caution 
This brief hint is not intended to de- 
scribe how all gardens should be made. 
It is merely how a garden can be made 
with the least effort. Owners of modest, 
but rather large, summer places; own- 
ers of camps, of wood-land, meadow 
land, abandoned farms; all can find 
here some help in having beauty with- 
out too much work or expense. Literally 
hundreds such have called in or writ- 
ten to us in the past few years with 
such problems and this modest study 
is their answer. The table appended is 
not perfect but the best that can be 
done until the science of ecology be- 
comes more complete and exact. (We 
welcome criticism.) 
