PLANTING AND MANURING 47 
or the result will be injurious. If manure of any kind 
be employed, nothing is better for the purpose than 
coarse bones used in moderate quantities—about one 
barrow load of bones to twenty or twenty-five barrows 
of loam. 
It will be necessary to exercise great skill and fore- 
thought in arranging and planting the various trees 
with which it is intended to adorn the garden. Every- 
thing should be done to make the garden as unique, and 
at the same time as bright and attractive as possible. 
Now that such excellent varieties of golden yew are 
obtainable, a fairly large number of these should be 
planted. They should not, however, be allowed to 
predominate over the common green yew ; but if a few 
be planted, it will help to relieve the sombre appearance 
of the ordinary English yew. 
Box is another kind of tree that lends itself admir- 
ably to Topiary work, and one that should not be 
forgotten during the planting period, as a few of the 
different varieties of box will greatly add to the general 
effect. There are also the different varieties of holly 
and golden privet; but, as regards the former, unless 
it is purely for the sake of contrast, which is admired 
in all gardens, I should recommend its omission from 
_ the list of trees to be planted, as it does not lend itself 
to clipping. Its chief fault, however, is its untidy 
nature, which causes it to be a nuisance in a garden. 
It is perpetually shedding its leaves throughout the 
summer, when every garden should be looking its 
neatest. 
No trees are more suitable for Topiary work than 
the different varieties of yew and the boxwood, as 
these are the most easily clipped and trained. Although 
the yew is an exceedingly slow-growing tree, it will, 
even with continual clipping, grow into a tree of large 
dimensions ; and, if the whole garden has been planted 
