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72 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND in.
of " pleaching " was an old one in England. It
now, however, developed into a positive mania for
cocks and hens and other conceits in yew and box,
and for little clipped trees spaced symmetrically
along the sides of the walks, as they are shown
m nearly all Kip's views, and particularly in the
views of Wimple and Staunton Harold. In
the latter there is a suggestion of a whole
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menagerie in clipped work along the sides of
the great basin. Peter Collinson notes that
"the gardens about London in 1712 were
remarkable for fine cut greens and dipt yews
in the shape of birds, dogs, men, ships, etc."
The curious cut work in the gardens of Levens
Hall, in Westmoreland, is a well-known instance.
This garden was planted early in the eighteenth
century, and is evidently a deliberate copy of a
Dutch model. The difference between the
French influence and the Dutch is very well
shown by the contrast between the gardens of
Melbourne and Levens; there is something a
little childish about the latter. In the garden
of Risley Hall, in Derbyshire, there is a charming
instance of cut yew — two doves about 7 feet
long billing each other form an archway in a
yew hedge ; but the most remarkable instance
still exists at Packwood, in Warwickshire, where
the Sermon on the Mount is literally represented
in clipped yew. At the entrance to the
" mount," at the end of the garden, stand four
tall yews 20 feet high for the four evangelists,
of " pleaching " was an old one in England. It
now, however, developed into a positive mania for
cocks and hens and other conceits in yew and box,
and for little clipped trees spaced symmetrically
along the sides of the walks, as they are shown
m nearly all Kip's views, and particularly in the
views of Wimple and Staunton Harold. In
the latter there is a suggestion of a whole
OO
menagerie in clipped work along the sides of
the great basin. Peter Collinson notes that
"the gardens about London in 1712 were
remarkable for fine cut greens and dipt yews
in the shape of birds, dogs, men, ships, etc."
The curious cut work in the gardens of Levens
Hall, in Westmoreland, is a well-known instance.
This garden was planted early in the eighteenth
century, and is evidently a deliberate copy of a
Dutch model. The difference between the
French influence and the Dutch is very well
shown by the contrast between the gardens of
Melbourne and Levens; there is something a
little childish about the latter. In the garden
of Risley Hall, in Derbyshire, there is a charming
instance of cut yew — two doves about 7 feet
long billing each other form an archway in a
yew hedge ; but the most remarkable instance
still exists at Packwood, in Warwickshire, where
the Sermon on the Mount is literally represented
in clipped yew. At the entrance to the
" mount," at the end of the garden, stand four
tall yews 20 feet high for the four evangelists,