. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. 132 Gardens for Small Country Houses. walk, with flower-borders backed by yew hedges, leading to a circular fountain court paved and brick-walled. The perspective and plan of a garden by Mr. Inigo Triggs (Figs. 174 and 175) show the same need and good use of yew hedges for enclosing and protecting rectangular gardens. At Bulwick (Fig. 176) some old yews are clipped only where their lateral advance threatens the closing of a green path. Yew hedges have much use besides for securing privacy. Fig. 177 shows a young hedge that will be allowed to grow so
. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. 132 Gardens for Small Country Houses. walk, with flower-borders backed by yew hedges, leading to a circular fountain court paved and brick-walled. The perspective and plan of a garden by Mr. Inigo Triggs (Figs. 174 and 175) show the same need and good use of yew hedges for enclosing and protecting rectangular gardens. At Bulwick (Fig. 176) some old yews are clipped only where their lateral advance threatens the closing of a green path. Yew hedges have much use besides for securing privacy. Fig. 177 shows a young hedge that will be allowed to grow some feet higher to screen the offices and their possibly unsightly adjuncts from the pleasure garden. Such hedges are usually carried up to a height of from six to seven feet. For finishing the top the best-looking and most practical form is that of a very low-pitched roof; this also presents the most easily accessible shape for FIG. 171.—A QUIET BOWLING GREEN. Though yew is undoubtedly tlie best tree for garden hedges, it is b}^ no means the only one. Where the soil contains lime, or, in fact, in any good loam, the green tree box makes a fine hedge and clips well. But it is slow to grow—slower than yew—and both are costly. Ilex can be trained and clipped into tall hedges ; there are fine examples at the remarkably beautiful and successful Italian gardens at Brockenhurst. Green holly is also a fine hedge plant, but wants more width if it is to be carried up any height. For a quicker hedge at less cost there is the Lawson cypress, growing fast and clipping well. The humbler prix'et we all know ; it is quite cheap and soon grows into a neat hedge. We are so well used to seeing it bearing green leaves all the year that we forget that it is really deciduous. When it grows wild as a small twiggy tree it is leafless in winter. It is the trimming that induces. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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