56 GARDEN DESIGN 



thought of form, foremost among whom 

 we must place artists who have the 

 happiness of always drawing natural 

 forms. Let Mr. Blomfield stand near 

 one of the Cedar -like Yews by the 

 Pilgrim's Way on the North Downs, 

 and, comparing it with trees cut in the 

 shape of an extinguisher, consider what 

 the difference means to the artist who 

 seeks beauty of form. Clipping such 

 trees does not merely deserve " obloquy " ; 

 it is worse than idiotic, as there is a sad 

 reason for the idiot's ways. 



If I use what in the Surrey nurseries 

 are called " hedging Yews " to form a 

 hedge, high or low, I must clip them to 

 form my hedge, and go on doing so 

 if I wish to keep it, or the hedge would 

 soon show me that it was "subject to 

 natural laws," and escape from the shears. 



What right have we to deform things 

 given us so perfect and lovely in form ? 

 No cramming of Chinese feet into im- 



