Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-26
RUINS MADE TO ORDER
MarveIs of Landscape Gardening
Transplanting Old and Giant Trees.

MarveIs of Landscape Gardening
Transplanting Old and Giant Trees.
| From Tit-BIts.
II there Is one branch of horticulture in
which vast improvements have been made
of late years 1t is landscape gardening. It
IS now possible to make luxurious scenery
out of q barren waste, and transform a
pice of ground which even a farmer would
despise into a veritable garden of Eden
However fat and stony the ground may
be, the landscape maker will soon change!
the aspect of affairs. His first course is TOT
obtain plan Of the ground, in which he,
marks the position every tree and shrub Is
to occupy. If he wishes to make the area
at his disposal appear much larger than itI
really is he will only diminutive trees,
but it Is quite possible for him to trans
plant giant oaks and elms which have been
growing for centuries from the forest d.
rect to the ground he is cultivating.
Directly a tree has been selected for.
TRANSPORTATION a square IS marked around
it, and the workmen dig to a depth of ten
feet or twenty feet. according to the girthI
of the tree. This being done, a channel is
made on either side of the tree and two
tunnels bored through its roots, in which
powerful beams are inserted. Round these
the tree is lifted as it stands on to a wagon
which is waiting in readiness, and from
thence transported to its destination. For
est oaks cost from fl to eco apiece, so that
an avenue of these monsters can easily
prove expensive. An avenue of cedars
however. Is the ambition of most garden
lovers. and their cost is enormous. Quite
recently well-known flnancier purchased
thirty such trees at cost of ESQ apiece,
and had them conveyed bodily a distance
of over 300 miles,
Rivers and lakes teeming with gold fish
or trout are comparatively easy to make.
II there is stream In the neighborhood
Its course can be diverted. and, by dam
ming lake of any size can be formed
within few days. The cost of artificial
lake. guaranteed not to dry up In summer,
averages ESQ
But the beauty of the artificial garden ia
It's ruins. However well the ground NAV be
laid out. with lakes and fountains meeting
the eye at every turn, 1t lacks an ancient
appearance unless tumble-down ruins may
De seen amid the trees. Artificial abbeys
and churches can be so built that even an
expert may be deceived the blackeued
stones and ivy-hung walls resembling those
or Norman origin.
The landscape gardener will supply YOU
with ancient abbeys in any number from
tlJO to t40O apiece. Here and there too
me garden can be given a venerable APP
pearance with the aid of an ancient erotto
or two These grottoes are just built of
Limestone. and then deliberately SPRAYED
with dirt and Crime. Quite a nice little
grotto. apparently couple of centuries
OLD, can be supplied for Flo note
The cost of such gardening is naturally !,
very heavy. but the result well repays the !
outlay. For instance, a well-known baro- |
net last year created for himself in Surrey /,
an ancestral estate at a cost of f7O, 600, ex- |
elusive of the house. The bill for trees I
alone amounted to f1S000, and another |
t4,OOO was spent in bringing soil from
America. In making "ume-honored" abb /
Dey G.5OO was expended, while $4,000 was
lald out In a lake for Jack and three trout !
streams