72 THE HUMAN SIDE OF TREES 



full of examples of this art. The French Louis 

 XIV had some grounds of this kind at Versailles. 

 There are a number of present day hereditary es- 

 tates in England where the art is still practised. 

 The yew is always a favourite of the tree sculptors. 



America is now fast following in England's foot- 

 steps in the matter of beautiful modern estates. 

 One has only to glance at a list of hundreds of 

 country places owned by multi-millionaires to see 

 that America will soon lead in the number and va- 

 riety of her beautiful sylvan retreats. These are 

 usually characterised by spacious grounds and ef- 

 fective landscape results, with garden fronts of 

 genuine grandeur. Perhaps among the best ex- 

 amples of beautiful American landscape work are 

 the estates of Samuel Untermeyer at Greystone- 

 on-the-Hudson, and the summer home of Murry 

 Guggenheim at Hollywood, New Jersey. 



What is called espalier work is another tree-frill 

 which man is responsible for. The Italians, Swiss, 

 French and Germans are especially adept in this 

 new art which trains fruit trees to grow into all 

 sorts of ornamental shapes. A favourite method 

 is to grow a tree up against a wall or a lattice-work 

 and to bind the branches so that they climb up in 

 long, straight vines. In this way one makes climb- 

 ing plants of apple trees, bushes of peach trees and 



