European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine the Maze a will Ramsburg a. Mazes an tremendous fun but also expensive Dott Lault to maintain and require Lott of patience the slowest Way Between a and b by Gregory Jensen United press International Ahfung though it May be the Maze is making a comeback. All Over Britain All Over the world people Are creating tangles in which to Gal lost taking the slowest Way Between a and  people Are keen to go Back o old fashioned values and traditions said Maie maker Adrian Fisher Whoso company is the Only dim of professional Maze designers in the world they re just tremendous fun said another expert. Lindsay Hayes who has designed and grown his own tourist ally acting Maze. Whatever the reason Fisher s minotaur design company in London has created is mazes in the last few years and there Are several More in the works. Fisher said in an interview. There Are no about 50 mazes open to the Public in Britain alone Fisher s company made one in Belgium one in Sweden and one in South Korea to said and has associates in she United states and in Australia. Traditional mazes Are those labyrinths of narrow paths hemmed in by High Hedges. They re designed Fisher said to take not the quickest Way irom a lob but the cd Ciscil they re expensive difficult to maintain and Lake one thing above All patience. Actually Lour or live years is enough to Groin a Maze Fisher said or three. Or six i Lold one custom or his would Lake seven years and he said that s nil Nghil Rny family has been Herd tar 400 years " but you can also Sahly a Maze craze Quicy for there is another Type of Maze the path Maze Lnch is merely tracks on Tho ground. Path mazes Are the oldest style though nobody knows How old. Mazes go Back so far their origin is a Mya Iery. The most renowned was the labyrinth at Knossos in Crete destroyed about 1470 . Some mazes in Sweden May be from the slant ago. Hayes said in an interview. There were mazes in Britain before the romans and in America Belore Columbus. The Hope indians in Arizona made one in the 111h or 12th Century Heyes said. In the Middle Ages a Maze s paths probably were Laid out to keep minds on the Christian track minotaur designed a similar religious theme Maze not Long ago. By victorian times mazes were an entertainment the victorians built More Man 80 of them. Modern mazes go heavily Lor whal Randall Coats. A minotaur partner Calls symbols within symbols statements Wilhort shapes each part dovetailing into the  one minotaur Maze traces the outline and Complex cogs of an ism steam locomotive. Another is shaped like a Tudor Rose. Other recent mazes look like dragons interlinked Arm Gates a 3-0 cube or magnetic lines of Lorce. Every one is different and we never to to same design twice Fisher said Many British stately Homes boast mazes some of Ihm centuries old. The most Lamous. At Hampton court Palace West of London was re planted in us Piesens Lom to 1690. Bui Hoys and his brother began growing their Jubilee Maze near Symond s vat in Gloucestershire in j977 so Nelly Lor business and it tormented 57,000 paying visitors last year mazes nowadays arc Tea cd mostly As Younst attractions or As status symbols but one was Cre riled As a result of a newspaper Competition which Drew Mare than 500 designs tuesday March 17, 19s7 Fisher noted in passing that a thick hedge mate is a very Good place for  the Heyes Brothers have invented All sorts of Maze games to play Between their High Hedges. But Fisher spirals easily into realms of philosophy on the subject. When we enter a Maze we have no More control Over whether we find the Correct Roule o the Center than ancient Man who first created them he said. You leave every trapping of Modem Lite behind you. You have to accept the discipline of the Maze. There s no Way of copping out or tuning Oil by Licking a switch. You Are in it and it s up to you to gel out of  gelling out is easier in. Some mazes than others a uni Ursal Maze has no junctions and no decision Points it s a labyrinth not a Puzzle. Complexity goes up in stages to three dimensional Multi level mazes like the naw one Al Long eat. A stately Home in Western England. That one is the world s biggest Maze a two acre tangle of spiral configurations Over and under paths and mutually accessible centers " designed by Greg  was planted in 197b with 16,180 Yew Trees once you be planted 16,000 shrubs they have to be trimmed Heyes said he and his brother Cut Pineir Maze s Hedges Only once a year though mind you. K lakes s x weeks " Fisher said minotaur has developed techniques which make taking Caie of an acre of Maze less work Jhan an acre of  because every Maze is dil Lurenl. It s impossible to say How much one would Cost Fig mrs $15.000 and up even path mazes need foundations Lor the paths and that can to just a san l ii took two men All summer to toy Iii Uricks in he Tudor Hose Maze tit pc Newell Hull. Of Ishier said 1 32.000 Bucks in and 2gooo hid to by shaped by hand the stai1s and stripes Page 13