Topiary Zac Sokolow Also available as part of

Also available as part of a boxed set

conservationists and efficiency proponents denouncing "waste

Tsiolkovsky’s work

and a poor but astonishingly deft young gunsmith from the small town of Tula

Topiary Zac Sokolow Also available as part ofBy Twigs Way Topiary, the art of creating sculpture in clipped plants, originated with the Romans, who employed 'toparii' to clip their hedges. The fashion traveled throughout Europe in the Renaissance, using rosemary, lavender and hyssop as well as the more traditional evergreens of yew, holly, myrtle and box. Louis XIV's Versailles was a triumph of art over nature, and in the low countries cone and lollipop shapes formed, and soon hopped around the