io6 GARDENS: THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



Above this hedge are arches of pink roses. Lovely views 

 of bright flowers grown in a garden beyond are to be had 

 between the box-hedge and the roses. 



All the suggestions given are within the reach of those 

 who own gardens. Each man will select his own style, 

 and either carry it out himself or superintend the gardener. 

 For the very ambitious Fig. 79 would form a striking 



centre to a circular garden. It 

 would take a long time to grow up, 

 but what an interest and amuse- 

 ment it would be to successive 

 generations, and what games of 

 hide-and-seek could take place in 

 and out of the archways ! The 

 most wonderful piece of topiary 

 work can be studied upon a page 

 FIG. 79. in 93 D, 61, in the Engraving De- 



partment of the Victoria and Albert 

 Museum. It is called " De Cleefse Linde-boom," but 

 should only be looked at as a marvel, not as something 

 to be copied. 



In alluding to it we may have transgressed the limits 

 of admiration of even the most liberal investigators of this 

 ancient topiary craft. Many will join with Pope in 

 making mock of the eminent cook whom he mentions in 

 his " Gardener's Catalogue." This gentleman beautified 

 his country seat, we are told, " with a coronation dinner 

 in greens, where you see the Champion flourishing on 

 horseback at one end of the table, and the Queen in 

 perpetual youth at the other." Despite these remarks, 

 and although some still look upon such figures as the 

 mere " toys" of Bacon's essay, there are others who will 

 find enjoyment in selecting the right place for them in a 

 garden. 



