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HANDBOOKS OF PRACTICAL GARDENING—XVIII
EDITED BY HARRY ROBERTS
THE BOOK OF TOPIARY
VIEW IN LEVENS GARDENS

SHOWING GARDENER’S HOUSE
 THE BOOK OF TOPIARY
BY
CHARLES H. CURTIS, F.R.H.S.
ASSISTANT EDITOR OF THE “GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE”; PREVIOUSLY ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S GARDENS, CHISWICK; AND FORMERLY AT THE ROYAL GARDENS, KEW
AND
W. GIBSON
HEAD GARDENER AT LEVENS HALL, WESTMORELAND
“The man who sneers at me for admiring, as Ido, a well cut peacock, may take my assurancein advance that I will neither kick him norabuse him; but pity him I must.”
 Shirley Hibberd.
JOHN LANE: THE BODLEY HEAD
LONDON AND NEW YORK. MCMIV
Turnbull & Spears, Printers, Edinburgh
v
CONTENTS
PAGE
 
Introduction1
 
Topiary4
 
Early History6
 
Golden Age of Topiary12
 
Crusade against Topiary21
 
Addison and Pope24
 
Revival of the Art32
 
The Formation of a Topiary Garden...                        
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