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Old Time Gardens 



picturesque hedge-rows, which are a most inter- 

 esting and characteristic feature of the landscape, 

 and they are beautiful also, as I have seen them once 

 or twice, at the end of an old garden. These hedge- 

 rows were thus formed : when a field was cleared, 

 a row of young saplings of varied growth, chiefly 



Topiary Work at Levens Hall. 



Oak, Elder, and Ash, was left to form the hedge 

 These young trees were cut and bent over parallel to 

 the ground, and sometimes interlaced together with 

 dry branches and vines. Each year these trees were 

 lopped, and new sprouts and branches permitted to 

 grow only in the line of the hedge. Soon a tangle 

 of briers and wild vines overgrew and netted them 



