The Textbook of Architecture

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Topiary

Also called topiarist, clipped evergreens

The art of clipping evergreen shrubs and trees, chiefly box and yew, into geometric or figurative shapes; from the Latin topiarius, the gardener of a Roman villa.

See also: Karikomi, Pleaching

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Gardens and Landscape.

A feature of French formal garden, Arts and Crafts garden architecture.

Nearby in the glossary

Tierceron · Tile-hanging · Tokonoma · Tondo · Torana · Torii · Torus · Torus moulding