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 | | Topiary at Versailles and its imitators was never complicated: low hedges punctuated by potted trees trimmed as balls on standards, interrupted by obelisks at corners were the vertical features of parterre gardens. |
 | | After topiary fell from grace in aristocratic gardens, however, it continued to be featured in cottagers' gardens, where a single specimen of traditional forms, a ball, a tree trimmed to a cone in several cleanly separated tiers, meticulously clipped and topped with a topiary peacock, was passed on as an heirloom. |
 | | The revival of topiary in English gardening parallels the revived "Jacobethan" taste in architecture, and John Loudon in the 1840s was the first garden writer to express a sense of loss at the topiary that had been removed from English gardens. |
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