Victorian gardens: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds (1870)
Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919 · [n.p.] D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 122
le is twelve feet in diame-ter, this will still leave six feet un-inclosed at the top. The rope isto be left around them until thetrees have grown five to six feethigher, when another binding willbring their tops together, and if they are long enough they may be twisted together. Fig. 35 is… … 124 ARTIFICIAL ADAPTATIONS OF of the curved stems must be cut back to prevent them from becom-ing leaders. Fig. 36 shows one development of this mode oftraining; the sides and top having been trimmed in mosque-dome form, the curve of the living frame of the pavilion beingwell adapted to produce it.…