158 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND vii again classifies the reasons for preferring white- thorn for hedges : ( i ) it grows quickest, and is most easily trimmed ; (2) it is stronger and most durable; (3) it is of a delicate colour; (4) it puts out its leaves the earliest in spring. Markham allows… … Fig. 34. — Hedge, from Markham's Country Farm, set of white-thorn. In The Country Farm he gives some designs for the shaping of hedges. The quarters of his garden are to be fenced with "fine curious hedges made battlement-wise in sundrie forms according to invention, or carrying the proportions of…
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