6o GARDEN DESIGN 



-tonia, and some Arbor-vits, which fre- 

 quently assume shapes like extinguishers 

 or the forms of clipped trees. It often 

 happens that these, when over-planted 

 or planted near houses, so emphasise 

 ugly forms about the house, that there 

 is no beauty possible in the home land- 

 scape. Many of such ugly, formless 

 trees have been planted within the last 

 generation, greatly to the injury of the 

 garden landscape. 



In the old gardens, where, from other 

 motives, trees were clipped when people 

 had very few Evergreens or shrubs of 

 any kind, or where they wanted an object 

 of a certain height, they had to clip. 

 It is well to preserve such gardens, but 

 never to imitate them, as has been done 

 in various English and American gardens. 

 If we want shelter, we can get it in 

 various delightful ways without clipping, 

 and, while getting it, we can enjoy the 

 beautiful natural forms of the finest 



