THE MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING 
OF YOUNG TREES 
In my last chapter I dealt almost exclusively with the 
management of old trees. In this chapter I intend to 
devote the space principally to the treatment that will 
have to be followed in the training and shaping of 
young trees in the Topiary garden. I shall try to 
give as clear and concise an idea as possible to those 
who are contemplating laying out a garden, or who 
may already have done so, in which Topiary work is 
intended to be the main feature, although the training 
and shaping of young trees does not belong entirely 
to a garden in course of formation. Generally in 
old gardens, trees will be found in the course of 
being trained. If the garden has been laid out and 
the trees carefully planted on the lines advised in a 
previous chapter, a record should be carefully made as 
to the exact date when each tree was planted and also 
regarding the shape that each tree in the garden is 
intended to represent when it is finished. A record 
of that description, made at the period of the work, 
will prove of great interest in after years, both to those 
who own the garden and to others who are either 
interested in it or may happen to visit it. A record 
of the date of planting and the shapes that the trees 
were originally meant to represent, seems to have been 
a thing quite neglected during the formation of the old 
Topiary gardens, which seems to me to be a very great 
pity. 
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