. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. FIG. 174.—YEW-HEDGED GARDEN BY MR. INIGO TRIGGS : PERSPECTIVE. the fresh growth and leafing at an unusual season. Quite a pictorial effect is often seen of well- trimmed privet forming a sheltering entrance arch over a cottage door. Hedges of common laurel are so easily grown and so often misused that unthinkingly one has come to hold them cheap in estimation and to under- value their real merit ; but a laurel hedse twelve feet high is a splendid thing ; the size of leaf telling well in proportion to the height. It must be cut by hand; never mutilat
. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. FIG. 174.—YEW-HEDGED GARDEN BY MR. INIGO TRIGGS : PERSPECTIVE. the fresh growth and leafing at an unusual season. Quite a pictorial effect is often seen of well- trimmed privet forming a sheltering entrance arch over a cottage door. Hedges of common laurel are so easily grown and so often misused that unthinkingly one has come to hold them cheap in estimation and to under- value their real merit ; but a laurel hedse twelve feet high is a splendid thing ; the size of leaf telling well in proportion to the height. It must be cut by hand; never mutilated with shears, which would cut across the leaves. A tall hedge of bay is also a most satisfying sight, for the leaf itself and the whole growth are of a beauty and dignity that are. "W^. )l 1 Ltz^ 11 t- 1 : EW HEDGE 7 0"HICH - i / 1 ' o^N, FEET FIG. .175.—PLAN OF Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932; Weaver, Lawrence, Sir, 1876-. London, Country Life [etc. ]; New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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