The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-05
RUINS MADE TO ORDER,
MnrVeIs OF Landscape Gardening.
Transplanting Old and Giant
Trees.
From Tit Bits.

From Tit Bits.
If there is one branch of horticulture
in which vast Improvements have been
made of late years it is Landscape gar
dening. 1t is now possible to make
luxurious scenery out of a barren
waste, and transform a piece of ground
which even a farmer would despse into
veritable garden of Eden.
However fiat and stony the ground
may be, the landscape maker will soon
change the aspect of affairs His first
course is to 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 it really is he
will use only diminutive trees, but it
is quite possible for him to transplant
giant oaks and elms which have been
growing for centuries from the forest
direct to the ground he is cultivatmg.
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, ac-
cording to the girth of the tree. This
being done, a channel is made on each
side of the tree and two tunnels bored
through its roots. in which powerful
beams chains are placed at each end
and the tree is lifted as it stands on
to a wagon which is waiting in readi-
ness, and thence transported to its
destination. Forest oaks cost from fl
to f20 apiece. so that an avenue of
these monsters can easily prove eX-
pensive. An avenue of cedars, how
ever. u.s. the ambition of most garden
lovers, and their cost is enormous
nYifa fno
purchased thirty such trees at a cost
of $3.50 apiece, and had them conveyed
bodily a distance of over three hundred
miles.
Rivers and lakes teeming with gold
fish or trout are comparatively easy
to make. If there is a stream in the
neighborhood its course can be divert
ed, and, by damming, lake of any
size can be formed within a few days.
The cost of an artificial lake, guaran-
teed not to dry up in summer, aver
ages ESQ.
But the beauty of the artificial gar
den is its ruins. However well the
ground may be laid out, with lakes
and fountains meeting the eye at every
turn, it lacks an ancient appearance
unless tumbledown ruins may be seen
amid the trees. Artificial abbeys and
churches can be so built that even
an expert may be deceived, the black
ened stones and ivy hung walls re-
sembling those of Norman origin.
The landscape gardener will supply
you with ancient abbeys and there,
too, the garden can be given a grotto
or two. These grottos 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 a
G10 note.
The cost of such gardening is natur-
ally very heavy, but the result we'll
repays the outlay. For instance, a well
known baronet last year created for
himself in Surrey an ancestral estate
at a cost of 10000, exclusive of the
house. The bill for trees alone amount
ed to G1S000, and another $4,000 was
spent in bringing soil from America.
In making time honored" abbey
$4,000 was expended, while $4,000 was
laid out in a lake for jack and three
trout streams.