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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
adds, “ I, for my part, do not like images cut out in juniper or
other garden stuff—they be for children. Little low hedges
round like welts, with some pretty pyramids, I like well, and in
some places, fair columns.”
The idea that cut trees were generally yews is very
prevalent, and the remains of topiary work in old gardens
still in existence confirm this impression. All the cut trees
HESLINGTON.
in the garden at Heslington, near York, are yews. This
garden was laid out soon after the house was built, about
1560. The quaintly-rounded hedge at Rockingham, and the
hedges and trees at Erbistock, are two examples of the
cut yews of this date. But in the books of the period, other
shrubs are spoken of more favourably than yews. It seems,
therefore, that it is only because the yew is a slow grower, a
sturdy tree, and an evergreen, that more yews than other shrubs
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
adds, “ I, for my part, do not like images cut out in juniper or
other garden stuff—they be for children. Little low hedges
round like welts, with some pretty pyramids, I like well, and in
some places, fair columns.”
The idea that cut trees were generally yews is very
prevalent, and the remains of topiary work in old gardens
still in existence confirm this impression. All the cut trees
HESLINGTON.
in the garden at Heslington, near York, are yews. This
garden was laid out soon after the house was built, about
1560. The quaintly-rounded hedge at Rockingham, and the
hedges and trees at Erbistock, are two examples of the
cut yews of this date. But in the books of the period, other
shrubs are spoken of more favourably than yews. It seems,
therefore, that it is only because the yew is a slow grower, a
sturdy tree, and an evergreen, that more yews than other shrubs