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as we count good taste,—and consequently his horti- 
cultural purview was limited and obscured. As the 
poet Mason puts it :— 
‘¢ The age of tourney triumphs, and quaint masques, 
Glar’d with fantastic pageantry, which dimm’d 
The sober eye of truth, and dazzled ev’n 
The sage himself; witness the high arch’d hedge, 
In pillar’d state by carpentry upborne, 
With coloured mirrors deck’d, and prison’d birds.” 
Bacon was in many things far in advance of the 
Tudor times in which he lived, so far indeed, in respect 
of our present subject, that no outstanding protest 
against Topiary appears to have been made by those 
who endeavoured to promote sound public taste, until 
nearly another century had elapsed. ‘Then the literary 
genius of Addison was directed against the evils and 
extravagances of his age. 
