TOPIARY  ,a See also:

• TERM

term in gardening or See also:

• HORTICULTURE
• HORTICULTURE (Lat. hortus, a garden)

horticulture for the cutting and trimming of shrubs, such as See also:

• CYPRESS (Cupressus)

cypress, See also:

• BOX
• BOX (Gr. irl or, Lat. buxus, box-wood; cf. 2r6Eir, a pyx)

box or See also:

• YEW (Taxus baccata)

yew, into See also:

• REGULAR

regular and ornamental shapes . It is usually applied to the cutting of trees into urns, vases, birds and other fantastic shapes, which were See also:

• COMMON

common at the end of the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century and through the 18th, but it also embraces the more restrained See also:

• ART

art necessary for the laying out of a formal See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden . Yew and See also:

• HOLLY (Ilex Aquifolium)

holly trees cut into fantastic See also:

• OBJECTS

objects may still be seen in old-fashioned cottage or farmhouse gardens in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . The See also:

• LAT

Lat. topiarius meant an ornamental or landscape gardener, and was formed from topia (Gr . Tinos, See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place), a term specially employed for a formal See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of landscape See also:

• PAINTING

painting used as a mural decoration in See also:

• ROMAN

Roman houses .