



THE HOLLOW HEDGE AND APR' >l kv 



And he had "four large round Phyllyreas smooth-clipped," 

 at Saye's Court, Deptford. Hent/ner, a German who visited 

 Theobalds even in the sixteenth century, spoke of the 

 labyrinths, terraces, trellis walks, bowling greens, geometrical 

 beds, and di\ clipped into cones, pyramids, and other 



forms. The most famous i-arly example of a topiary garden 

 in England is Levens, which we have already described, and 

 Heslington Hall, near York, is another very characteristic 

 example. The 

 gardens at 

 ston Castle 

 belong, there- 

 fore, to a style 

 of honourable 

 antiquity, and 

 they differ 

 mainly from 

 their congeners 

 in being modern. 

 Such gar- 

 dens, of course, 

 as Addison says, 

 do not humour 

 Nature ; rather 

 they de\ iate 

 from it pro- 

 foundly. But 

 the essayist re- 

 cognised many 

 kinds of garden- 

 is of poetry: 

 ir ma. 



of parterres and 

 flower gardens 

 are epigramma- 

 and sn- 

 netee J n this 



THE "rOHAklUS" 



of bowers and ^riitts, treilla^es and cascade^, are rmance 

 writers; Wise and l.ond-.n are mir heroic p--ts." Thi>> IN .1 

 ^pirit >f i\ | t - t t,,. ism that should lead UN ! reio^nix- the met/ 

 I i-ton. though Addison himself, who lived in a time \\lu-n .1 

 profound change had be^un, did not lik. -ismg in 



COIH-S, globes, and pyramids, and to discover the marks ot the 

 rs upon every plant and bush, but prelern-d to"|.H>k 

 upon a tree in all its luxuriant) and diffusion <>f Iviu^hs and 



branchts." 



Qut hum: 

 dil \fiitcnli.r. 

 It was 3 question 

 of taste. Addi- 

 son did not know 

 whether he was 



ular in 



opinion. Cer- 

 tain ;t is that 



v tile t-^ 

 vacancies and 



iries of the 

 'ner 

 brought him into 



r.lit. The 

 fet-ling "f t.i 

 to which B.I 

 had given 

 e\p:i-^si..n I 

 before, was 

 aroused against 

 his fantastic 



dens about 

 don. said 

 Lambert, 

 ing to 

 " I. i n n 





Lon- 



Mr. 



writ- 



the 



e a n 



MIS WOKK. 



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