MANAGEMENT OF TOPIARY GARDEN 71 
The planting of the beds and their various contents 
is in the Topiary garden a very important part of the 
work, and one that requires both a great amount of skill 
and forethought, as to a great extent on the arranging 
of the various kinds of flowering plants in the different 
beds will depend the future beauty of the garden. 
Of course I do not mean to imply that the arrangement 
of the various beds is of as much importance as the 
planting of the trees, as they differ in this respect so 
far, that once the trees in a Topiary garden are planted, 
they should under no circumstances whatever be 
altered; but in the case of the beds, they may be 
subject to many alterations, as circumstances may occur. 
The yew by itself is not a very bright or attractive tree, 
but when you see it planted in the Topiary garden and 
clipped into all kinds of unique shapes and figures, and 
all the available space in the beds is utilised for the 
purpose of massing either herbaceous or bedding plants, 
the effect is extremely beautiful; it is then that one 
sees a garden with a charm and beauty about it that is 
very seldom if ever met with in the more modern 
garden. 
It is quite evident that, in most of the old formal 
gardens, glass accommodation has never to any great 
-extent been considered necessary. Yet there is nothing 
of more importance to the gardener in charge of a large 
Topiary garden than plenty of glass accommodation for 
storing the various bedding plants during winter and 
spring. In former years both the persons who owned 
the Topiary gardens, and the gardeners as well, seem 
to have depended to a great extent on the different 
varieties of annuals for the embellishment of their 
gardens. But annuals in a garden such as the one I am 
speaking of, never have the same effect among the yews 
as the more bright and showy bedding plants. I quite 
agree with a great many people in their contention that 
