4io 
Old Time Gardens 
formal rows of flower jars with their hundreds of 
Century plants, and the lovely light on the lovely 
lake, serve as a delightful contrast to the clear, clean 
lusty green of the clipped trees. This garden is a 
beautiful ex- 
ample of the 
art of the topi- 
arist, not in 
its grotesque 
forms, but in 
the shapes liked 
by Lord Bacon, 
pyramids, col- 
u m n s, and 
“hedges in 
welts,” carefully 
studied to be 
both stately and 
graceful. I first 
saw this garden 
thirty years ago; 
it was interest- 
ing then in its 
well thought- 
out plan, and in 
the perfection 
of every inch of 
its slow growth ; 
but how much more beautiful now, when the gar- 
den’s promise is fulfilled. 
The editor of Country Life says that the most 
notable attempt at modern topiary work in Eng- 
Steps in Italian Garden at Wellesley, 
Massachusetts. 
