Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Allerton Park [PAGE 23]

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The Maze Garden is teen to best advantage only by those who climb the hidden steps to the walk along the top of the wall which encloses it. The design is ancient Chinese and is repeated on each side of the central pathway. More than 3,000 running feet of privet hedge is required to create the scene. Here are displayed the splendid white fish illustrated and described on page 19. The trained fruit trees on the walls of this erstwhile vegetable garden are a surprise to many. The treatment is a carryover from Northern Europe where warmth is needed to ripen the fruit. Here it is mostly a garden fancy. The trees arc dwarf varieties — the\ are kept pruned to maintain whatever shape is desired and are partly supported by wires.