Create an account to track your scores
and create your own practice tests:
Test: SAT Critical Reading
Adapted from Manual of Gardening by Liberty Hyde Bailey (ed. 1910)
Having now discussed the most essential elements of gardening, we may give attention to such minor features as the actual way in which a satisfying garden is to be planned and executed.
Speaking broadly, a person will get from a garden what he puts into it; and it is of the first importance, therefore, that a clear conception of the work be formulated at the outset. I do not mean to say that the garden will always turn out what it was desired that it should be; but the failure to turn out properly is usually some fault in the first plan or some neglect in execution.
Sometimes the disappointment in an ornamental garden is a result of confusion of ideas as to what a garden is for. One of my friends was greatly disappointed on returning to his garden early in September to find that it was not so full and floriferous as when he left it in July. He had not learned the simple lesson that even a flower-garden should exhibit the natural progress of the season. If the garden begins to show ragged places and to decline in late August or early September, it is what occurs in all surrounding vegetation. The year is maturing. The garden ought to express the feeling of the different months. The failing leaves and expended plants are therefore to be looked on, to some extent at least, as the natural order and destiny of a good garden.
| 1. | The main point of the passage is __________. |
to explore one of the small ways in which a successful garden can be achieved
to document the essential elements of successful gardening
to note the progression of a garden through the different seasons of a year
to recommend what types of plants should be used by amateur, intermediate, and advanced gardeners
to explain the benefits of an ornamental garden
