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Old Time Gardens 
picturesque hedge-rows, which are a most inter- 
esting and characteristic feature of the landscape, 
and they are beautiful also, as I have seen them once 
or twice, at the end of an old garden. These hedge- 
rows were thus formed : when a field was cleared, 
a row of young saplings of varied growth, chiefly 
Topiary Work at Levens Hall. 
Oak, Elder, and Ash, was left to form the hedge 
These young trees were cut and bent over parallel to 
the ground, and sometimes interlaced together with 
dry branches and vines. Each year these trees were 
lopped, and new sprouts and branches permitted to 
grow only in the line of the hedge. Soon a tangle 
of briers and wild vines overgrew and netted them 
