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have survived. Parkinson says of the “use of the yew,” “It is
found planted both in the corners of orchards and against the
windows of houses, to be both a shadow and an ornament, it
being always green.” But of the privet he writes, “ Because the
use of this plant is so much, and so frequent throughout all this
land, although for no other purpose but to make hedges or
arbours in gardens, &c., whereunto it is so apt, that no other can


EXAMPLE OF TOPIARY WORK IN COTTAGE GARDEN, HADDON.

be like unto it, to be cut, lead, and drawn into what forme one
will, either of beasts, birds, or men armed or otherwise : I could
not forget it, although it . . . . be an hedge bush.” “Your
Gardiner, ' writes Lawson in 1618, “can frame your lesser wood
to the shape of men armed in the field, ready to give battell: or
swift-running Grey Hounds to chase the Deere, or hunt the
Hare. This kind of hunting shall not waste your corne, nor
much your coyne.” Rosemary also was “ sette by women for