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Old Time Gardens 
and extent with the finest English hedges on the 
finest English estates. 
Through the great number of formal gardens 
laid out within a few years in America, the topiary 
art has had a certain revival. In California, with 
Topiary Work in California. 
the lavish foliage, it may be seen in considerable 
perfection, though of scant beauty, as here shown. 
Happy is the garden surrounded by a brick wall 
or with terrace wall of brick. How well every color 
looks by the side of old brick ; even scarlet, bright 
pink, and rose-pink flowers, which seem impossible, 
do very well when held to the wall by clear green 
leaves. Flowering vines are perfect when trained 
