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FIG. 174. — YEW-HEDGED GARDEN BY MR. INIGO TRIGGS : PERSPECTIVE. 



the fresh growth and 

 leafing at an unusual 

 season. Quite a pictorial 

 effect is often seen of well- 

 trimmed privet forming a 

 sheltering entrance arch 

 over a cottage door. 

 Hedges of common laurel 

 are so easily grown and 

 so often misused that 

 unthinkingly one has come 

 to hold them cheap in 

 estimation and to under- 

 value their real merit ; but 

 a laurel hedse twelve feet 

 high is a splendid thing ; 

 the size of leaf telling well 

 in proportion to the 

 height. It must be cut by 

 hand ; never mutilated 

 with shears, which would 

 cut across the leaves. A 

 tall hedge of bay is also a 

 most satisfying sight, for 

 the leaf itself and the 

 whole growth are of a 

 beauty and dignity that are 



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EW HEDGE 7 0"HICH 



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 FIG. .175. — PLAN OF ABOVE. 



