78 THE BOOK OF TOPIARY 
as possible, a thing that can only be had by the aid 
of constant clipping or pruning. 
For a great many years past, in this country at 
least, the Topiary garden has been to a very large 
extent a thing that belongs to other ages; especially 
does this apply to the formation of new gardens; but 
there is not wanting evidence at the present day that 
it is again coming into favour, and deservedly so. The 
Topiary garden has its drawbacks, principally on account 
of the great number of years it takes to bring it to 
perfection and the amount of extra labour that requires 
to be spent over the clipping at various periods of 
the year. There is one thing to remember about the 
Topiary garden, it is all work. 
Perhaps at the present time Topiary gardening is a 
subject of far greater interest to rich men in America 
than it is over here, and as gardening might practically 
be said to be in its infancy in that great country, there 
is hardly any reason why the art of Topiary work may 
not have a great future in store for it in America. 
