OX THE EFFECT OF CLIPPED TREES IX DECORATIVE GARDEXIXG. 
or without its dressings, in the form of fountains, 
statues, &c., &c., such a disposition of forms might 
he made successfully available in an English gar¬ 
den in many ways : but there is one which I more 
especially wish to suggest. Our modern geome¬ 
tric flower-gardens, when of considerable extent, 
generally produce a samely and unsatisfactory 
effect, from them uniform flatness of surface, few 
of the plants cultivated for the purpose of pro¬ 
ducing masses of colour growing to any consider¬ 
able height. I recollect noticing particularly how 
conspicuous this defect of flatness appeared to me 
in the otherwise fine flower-garden at Trentham. 
In addition to the 'defect of flatness—that of 
seeing over all the surface at one glance, destroys 
to a great extent the eagerness and curiosity 
to examine the more distant parts—which should 
always be considered a fatal defect in gardenesque 
compositions. To remedy this, I propose intro¬ 
ducing, in a geometrical flower-garden, either 
one, four, or more examples, according to space, 
of such a composition as the annexed “ Theatre 
of Cypresses.” I will imagine the space only suit¬ 
able to v one group, which, in that case, would of 
course be central. The hedges might be formed 
of Privet, or some other quick-growing ever¬ 
green—some of the new Berberries for instance ■ 
instead of the Cypresses, in our climate, some 
hardy tree of spiral growth, but considerable 
size, might be selected, as great height is neces¬ 
sary to the effect I wish to produce. In Italy, 
the “ sky-cleaving Cypress,” as Shelley has so 
picturesquely termed it, attains to the size of the Poplars of the north, and forms a most character- 
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