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House & Garden 
Against solid walls of dark yew have been grown specimen statues carved in juniper. 
This forms the termination of the canal, and is placed in such a relationship to the 
water that the sombre coloring of the yew is intensified, and the light tones of the 
juniper made still more lovely. The garden was designed by Mr. Romaine-Walker 
AN E N 
H alf-way between 
the formal, archi¬ 
tectural garden of Le 
Notre, the garden of 
which Versailles is the 
splendid model, and the 
so-called “English” gar¬ 
den, with its less geo¬ 
metrical pattern and its 
absence of architecture, 
stands the topiary or 
sheared garden. 
The builder and the 
architect had as great a 
hand in the making of a 
formal garden as the hor¬ 
ticulturist. Terraces, sta¬ 
tues, walls, and arches 
were more important in 
these elaborate creations 
than growing plants. 
The topiarist makes 
the best of both worlds. 
He is both builder and 
architect, but the mate¬ 
rials he uses are living 
trees instead of inani¬ 
mate stone. 
Where the ordinary 
gardener must necessa- 
GLISH TOPIARY G 
In a Slight Thirty Years This Garden Has Been Grown — 
It Rivals Some of the Most Ancient Gardens of England 
On a dry, and bank is a thick plantation of laurels, clipped to an even surface, 
while at the top come the finer foliage and forms of yew. The way leads by these 
stone steps from the forest up to the level open stretches of the garden 
ARDEN 
rily work in irregular 
broken masses, the topi¬ 
arist can employ straight 
lines, plane surfaces and 
all the forms of solid 
geometry. At the same 
time his green masonry 
has this advantage over 
the architect’s stonework, 
that it is alive and diver¬ 
sified by the innumerable 
intricate details of a liv¬ 
ing organism. A flat sur¬ 
face that is composed of 
countless little leaves is 
more interesting, richer 
in quality than the flat 
surface of a stone in lay¬ 
ing out, etc. 
In laying out this to¬ 
piary garden the de¬ 
signer has made some 
interesting experiments 
in color variation — yew, 
juniper, Irish yew, lau¬ 
rel, golden yew, box, and 
ivy have been mingled so 
as to relieve the unvaried 
sombreness of the plain 
yew hedge. 
