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of our work either for our profit or 

 pleasure. Perhaps, as is probable, Mr. 

 Blomfield has never noticed what a 

 beautiful tree a Yew in its natural form 

 is. It is not only on the hills he may 

 see them. If he will come and see 

 them in my own garden in a high wind 

 some day, or when bronzed a little with 

 a hard winter, he may change his amus- 

 ing notions about clipped Yews. 



I think I can give Mr. Blomfield a 

 rational explanation of why it is foolish 

 to clip so fair a tree or any tree. 



I clip Yews when I want to make a 

 hedge of them, but then I am clipping a 

 hedge, and not a tree. I hold up " the 

 clipped Yew tree to obloquy," as the 

 tree in its natural form is the most 

 beautiful evergreen tree of our western 

 world as fine as the Cedar in its plumy 

 branches, and more beautiful than any 

 Cedar in the colour of its stem. In our 

 own day we have seen trees of the same 



