{"collection":"ETC Sacred Texts","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_etc_ml_ml17_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_etc_ml_ml17_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_etc_ml_ml17_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/etc/ml/ml17.htm","summary":"THE art of trimming hedges of evergreens is of great antiquity; probably it is almost as old as horticulture itself. The Romans made much use of the services of the topiarius, or hedge-trimmer\u2014he is referred to by Cicero and other writers\u2014and it is quite possible that they had shrubs or bushes trained to enclose winding paths in the manner of a hedge maze. In Pliny's \"Natural History\" (Book XVI, Ch.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Mazes and Labyriths: Chapter XIV. The Topiary Labyrinth, ...","tradition":"ETC Sacred Texts","translated_text":null,"word_count":2679}