

The Labor Saving Secret 
To make a labor-free garden, first consider carefully your loca- 
tion as to drainage (sand, clay, etc.) ; normal rainfall or local 
ground water; richness and acidity; and the amount of sun- 
light. 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 lightening 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 a few and mostly medium sized or small kinds that 
give some bloom or are exceptionally handsome. 
Let the BIRDS Control your INSECT PESTS 
Keeping insects down by poison is efficient. But new poisons kill and drive away 
many birds, kill honeybees, without which fruit would be unable to form. Birds, 
after all, keep down insects well enough to permit gardens. Some birds are great 
insect eaters, some eat none. Attract the insect-eaters (marked “‘*” in table below) 
by providing their favorite shrub foods. They live on insects and only eat the 
berries for dessert! 

HERE 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 im- 
provement whatever from cultivation. 
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 right. For fuller descrip- 
tions, photos, etc., find it in the descriptive part of this Guide 
A Word of Caution 
This brief hint is not intended to describe how all gardens 
should be made with the least effort. Owners of modest, but 
rather large, summer places; owners of camps, of wood-land, 
meadow land, abandoned farms; all can find here some help in 
having beauty without too much work or expense. Literally 
hundreds such have called in or written 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 becomes more complete and exact. 
(We welcome criticism.) 
W eeding 
By maintaining a loose surface (humus and sand mulch is easi- 
est) all weeds can be pulled with great easé and, in fact, fewer 
weeds seem to appear. 



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