100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE

February 11, 1922

IN April last there was an article putting the holly quite at the top of the tree, so to speak, as an evergreen hedge-maker, while the yew was given only second place; but, if the question were put to the vote, it is probable that the greater number of gardeners would plump for the yew. A fine holly hedge is certainly a splendid object and, as the writer says, ‘its leaves reflect the feeble winter light in the dull months of the year, an image of life in the depths of winter’. But the yew, too, has its beautiful lights and shades and can sparkle with dew and hoar frost, without the aggravating holly habit of manufacturing conspicuous and prickly dead leaves all the summer; and there can be no question which is the pleasanter to clip or looks better when done.

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