
Individuals 
E are sure that plants are individuals with distinct individualities. Some of 
W these individuals can be transplanted much more readily than others of the 
same species. Some respond differently to the same environment. It is our 
privilege and our joy to study the reaction of many plants to various changes and to 
help individual plants as well as groups of plants gain strength and vigor. We like 
to feel that these plants which we have assisted nature in raising are finding a new 
home where they will be happy and well cared for. Therefore, we ask you to keep 
them thoroughly watered during the hot dry spells in summer and to “send your 
evergreens into the winter wet.’ Keep your wildgarden free of undesirable weeds, 
thistles, ragweed, nettles, poison ivy and Japanese honeysuckle, which are a few of 
your serious menaces. Do not pile heaps of leaves on your wildgarden in the fall. 
Do not remove the natural fall of leaves from the wildgarden in the spring. Remem- 
ber even the tiniest plant is used to coming up through natural leaf fall when it 
wakes up in the spring. It needs those leaves for mulch and later on for food. Do not 
cultivate your wildgarden. The roots are delicate and generally close to the surface 
and are easily disturbed. 
VICK’S WILDGARDENS 
Albert F. W. Vick, Jr. — 632 Montgomery Ave., Narberth, Pa. 
Nursery — Glen Moore, Penna. 
