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know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my 

 own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its 

 luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches than 

 when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical 

 figure." 



But this is nothing to the denunciation by Pope, which 

 may be found in the Guardian of September 29th, 1713. 

 It is extremely humorous. He declares that 



" A citizen is no sooner proprietor of a couple of yews, 

 but he entertains the thought of erecting them into giants, 

 like those of Guildhall. I know an eminent cook, who 

 beautified his country-seat with a coronation dinner in 

 greens, where you see the champion flourishing on horse- 

 back at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual 

 youth at the other. For the benefit of all my loving 

 countrymen of this curious taste, I shall here publish a 

 catalogue of greens to be disposed of by an eminent 

 town gardener, who has lately applied to me on this 

 head. He represents, that for the advancement of a 

 politer sort of ornament in the villas and gardens adjacent 

 to this great city, and in order to distinguish those places 

 from the more barbarous countries of gross nature, the 

 world stands much in need of a virtuoso gardener, who 

 has a turn for sculpture, and is thereby capable of 

 improving upon the ancients in his imagery of evergreens. 

 I proceed to his catalogue : 



" Adam and Eve in Yew ; Adam a little shattered by 

 the fall of the Tree of Knowledge in the great storm ; 

 Eve and the Serpent very flourishing. 



