THE MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING 

 OF YOUNG TREES 



IN my last chapter I dealt almost exclusively with the 

 management of old trees. In this chapter I intend to 

 devote the space principally to the treatment that will 

 have to be followed in the training and shaping of 

 young trees in the Topiary garden. I shall try to 

 give as clear and concise an idea as possible to those 

 who are contemplating laying out a garden, or who 

 may already have done so, in which Topiary work is 

 intended to be the main feature, although the training 

 and shaping of young trees does not belong entirely 

 to a garden in course of formation. Generally in 

 old gardens, trees will be found in the course of 

 being trained. If the garden has been laid out and 

 the trees carefully planted on the lines advised in a 

 previous chapter, a record should be carefully made as 

 to the exact date when each tree was planted and also 

 regarding the shape that each tree in the garden is 

 intended to represent when it is finished. A record 

 of that description, made at the period of the work, 

 will prove of great interest in after years, both to those 

 who own the garden and to others who are either 

 interested in it or may happen to visit it. A record 

 of the date of planting and the shapes that the trees 

 were originally meant to represent, seems to have been 

 a thing quite neglected during the formation of the old 

 Topiary gardens, which seems to me to be a very great 



