THE SHEARING OF TREES 



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a collection, he will likely find himself counting 

 the bushes ; or, at least, he will be making 

 mental comparisons of the various bushes, and 

 wondering why they are not all sheared to be ex- 

 actly alike. Fig. 129 shows how the same "artist" 

 has treated two deutzias and a juniper. Much 

 the same effect could have been secured, and 

 with much less trouble, by laying two flour bar- 



129. The three guardsmen. 



rels end to end and standing a third one between 

 them. 



I must hasten to say that I have not the 

 slightest objection to the shearing of trees. The 

 only trouble is in calling the practice art, and 

 in putting the trees where people must see them. 

 If the operator simply calls the business shear- 



