THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF A 
TOPIARY GARDEN 
IN previous chapters I have dealt almost entirely with 
the general formation of a Topiary garden; the soils 
and manures that are most suitable for the cultivation 
and welfare of the yew; and I tried to give my readers 
some idea of the general treatment required in the 
management of both old and young trees. In this 
chapter it is my intention to explain, as clearly as 
possibile, the vearly management of a Topiary garden. 
‘The general routine of work in the Formal or Dutch 
garden is very much the same as in any other garden, 
with, of course, the exception of the clipping and training 
of the trees. That in itself adds a very great amount 
of extra labour to the general work. But fortunately it 
is work that requires to be done at the slackest time 
of the year for gardening, viz., the autumn. 
If the garden is an old established one, the arranging 
and planting of the different beds will have been carried 
out many years previous, very possibly at the time the 
trees were planted, at the foundation of the garden, 
although there is no doubt they will have been subject 
to many alterations during the years that have elapsed 
since the time when the garden was first formed. But 
in this chapter it is with the planting and arranging of 
the various flowering plants in the beds of a garden 
that has been laid out on the principle recommended in 
an earlier chapter of this work—on the formation of the 
Topiary garden—that I intend chiefly to deal with. 
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