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very tall, and we rather wonder how the trees and shrubs 

 within got sufficient sun and air to grow. The plans 

 are equally suited either to a dwarf box-edging or to a 

 three-foot yew-hedge, which would only give sufficient 

 protection to young trees whilst they were growing up. 



Certainly the plan (Fig. 17) is cleverly designed to give 

 plenty of shadow and to protect from cutting winds. 



Another formal garden is Fig. 18, where niches have 

 been cut in the high hedge 

 for statues, while others near 

 by are for seats. This garden 

 is indeed closely protected, 

 and we can imagine the delight 

 of sitting with a book within , „ 



° , , ^, Trees and shrubs; B, paths. 



Its warm green yew-hedges, 



where one or two very perfect figures hewn out of marble 



take us back in thought to Greece and Rome. 



Many are the gardens in old books pictured with tall 

 recesses in the green hedges prepared to receive some 

 lovely statue. The " Jardin des Simples a Cimsello " 

 shows these with domed arches of yew, and pretty little 

 knobs or devices clipped in the roof of each archway. 

 Some of the tall narrow arches led to other gardens, 

 apparently opening from the circular one in which were 

 the statues. 



So much has been said by those in authority against 

 topiary work and stiff hedge-planting that it is with 

 extreme caution we mention so frivolous a thing as hedge 

 ornamentation. It is unlikely, however, that the man of 

 letters or the business man who seeks rest in a garden 

 will object strongly to just a touch of such childishness 

 here and there — something that will remind him a little 

 of an old-world garden of the early seventeenth century, 

 before the craze for clipping had brought Pope's " St. 

 George " and " Adam and Eve " to be bid for at an 



