MANAGEMENT OF YOUNG TREES 67 
quite a different shape from its neighbour. ‘There is 
such a variety of different shapes to be seen in almost 
any garden where arches are trained, that there is no 
occasion for two arches in one garden to be similar 
in design. 
When the shapes have been carefully thought out, 
let no time be lost in making a start on the clipping and 
training of them, especially if the trees are far enough 
advanced in growth to begin work on. It is simply 
loss of time to allow the trees to keep growing, year 
after year, when they might be having some training 
done to advantage towards the clipping and shaping of 
them. It is a very great mistake to allow young trees 
to grow for several years after they are large enough 
to be fit for training. As soon as ever a tree is large 
enough to begin work on according to the shape the tree 
is intended to be, a start should be made, or else it will 
be found when the work is begun, that some branches 
that have taken three or four years to grow will have 
to be cut away altogether, after serving no other purpose 
than exhausting in an unnecessary manner the strength 
of the tree; whereas if the tree had been clipped 
sooner, these branches could have been utilised in 
forming its various parts, or else removed from the 
tree. 
In the making of a Topiary garden, nothing should be 
done to the trees in a hurry; but on the other hand, no 
more time should be lost than can possibly be avoided in 
hastening on the work of shaping, and in getting the 
garden furnished in the quickest possible time. No 
young shoots or branches should be cut away that can 
possibly be used in the construction of the various shapes ; 
but in the training of young trees special care should be 
given to them, and particular notice taken that they are 
not allowed to make too rapid growth. Ina very few 
years trees will be injured to a great extent through being 
