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is also provided for, inasmuch as verdant tombstones 
and Latin crosses are grown in considerable numbers, 
and some of these would be vast improvements upon 
many of the ugly head-stones and other memorials of 
a more solid character that crowd our graveyards. 
Pyramids, mop-heads, and blunt cones are among the 
commonest designs; they do not call for the exercise 
of much ingenuity, but when these pyramidal trees are 
cut into several regular and well graded tiers their cost 
increases considerably. Another form of tree that 
naturally suggests itself to the Dutch grower, who all 
his life is used to water and boats, is that of a sailing 
ship, or barge; but these are not so easy to evolve from 
either box or yew, and they call for a good deal of 
training in addition to the cutting and clipping necessary 
to keep them shapely. Thin wires and a few light 
bamboo rods usually complete the training outfit 
necessary, but taking the whole range of topiarian 
design, training, in the sense of tying out, is not much 
practised. 
Compared with the designs enumerated in the 
catalogue that Pope’s fancy created, the modern list 
of verdant sculptures is a very modest one. True we 
may have Jugs and Beakers, Wreaths as well as Crosses, 
and Swans as well as Peacocks, varying in price from 
three guineas to ten guineas each, but the moderns do 
not attempt to pourtray Adam and Eve, nor do they 
caricature the poets and statesmen of the age, in living 
box and yew. 
Prices are governed chiefly by the size and age 
(height and density), and the design of the specimen. 
The yew tree being of slower growth than the box is, 
size for size, the most expensive of the two, and well 
furnished examples that have not exceeded marketable 
size vary in age from twenty to sixty years. Even when 
designed in box the birds are about ten or twelve years 
