THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF A 

 TOPIARY GARDEN 



IN previous chapters I have dealt almost entirely with 

 the general formation of a Topiary garden ; the soils 

 and manures that are most suitable for the cultivation 

 and welfare of the yew ; and I tried to give my readers 

 some idea of the general treatment required in the 

 management of both old and young trees. In this 

 chapter it is my intention to explain, as clearly as 

 possible, the yearly management of a Topiary garden. 



The general routine of work in the Formal or Dutch 

 garden is very much the same as in any other garden, 

 with, of course, the exception of the clipping and training 

 of the trees. That in itself adds a very great amount 

 of extra labour to the general work. But fortunately it 

 is work that requires to be done at the slackest time 

 of the year for gardening, viz., the autumn. 



If the garden is an old established one, the arranging 

 and planting of the different beds will have been carried 

 out many years previous, very possibly at the time the 

 trees were planted, at the foundation of the garden, 

 although there is no doubt they will have been subject 

 to many alterations during the years that have elapsed 

 since the time when the garden was first formed. But 

 in this chapter it is with the planting and arranging of 

 the various flowering plants in the beds of a garden 

 that has been laid out on the principle recommended in 

 an earlier chapter of this work on the formation of the 

 Topiary garden that I intend chiefly to deal with. 



