ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



but to give animal form to a tree can never 

 be other than bad taste. 



Horace Walpole, in his essay on "Modern 

 Gardening," first printed in 1771, criticises 

 the fashion that "stocked our gardens with 

 giants, animals, monsters, coats of arms, and 

 mottoes, in yew, box and holly," remarking 

 that "absurdity could go no farther;" and 

 again, after inveighing against "the tricks 

 of water works to wet the unweary, not to 

 refresh the panting spectator," says: "To 

 crown these impotent displays of false taste 

 the shears were applied to the lovely wild- 

 ness of form with which nature had dis- 

 tinguished each various species of tree and 

 shrub. The venerable oak, the romantic 

 beech, the useful elms, even the aspiring 

 circuit of the lime, the regular round of 

 the chestnut, and the almost moulded 

 orange tree were corrected by such fantastic 

 admirers of symmetry." 



Of large-growing evergreens suitable for 

 the lawn, there are the Austrian pine and 



