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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOPIARY ,a See also:

term in gardening or See also:horticulture for the cutting and trimming of shrubs, such as See also:cypress, See also:box or See also:yew, into See also: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 at the end of the 17th See also:century and through the 18th, but it also embraces the more restrained See also:art necessary for the laying out of a formal See also:garden. Yew and See also:holly trees cut into fantastic See also:objects may still be seen in old-fashioned cottage or farmhouse gardens in See also:England. The See also:Lat. topiarius meant an ornamental or landscape gardener, and was formed from topia (Gr. Tinos, See also:place), a term specially employed for a formal See also:kind of landscape See also:painting used as a mural decoration in See also:Roman houses.

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