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selves, and not merely representations 

 of them ! J 



The old people from whom he takes 

 his ideas were not nearly so foolish, as 

 when the Yew tree was used as a 

 shelter or a dividing line, and when a 

 Yew was put at a garden door for shelter 

 or to form a hedge, it was necessary to 

 clip it if it was not to get out of all 

 bounds. But here is a man delighting 

 for its own sake in what he calls with 

 such delicate feeling " vegetable sculpture" 

 in " cocked hats " and " ramping lions " ! 



