The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14
RUINS
ARE MADE TO ORDER ON ENC.
 LISH ESTATES.
Modern Landscape Gardener Not Only Transplants Trees and Diverts Streams But He Rs- produces Abbeys and
 Castles.

London Tit-Bits.
 If there Is one branch of horticulture in which vast improvements have been made of late years 1t is landscape gar dening. It is now possible to make lux urious scenery out of barren waste, ana transform a piece of ground which even a farmer would despise into a veritablc Garden of Eden.
 However flat 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 1t really is he will use only diminutive trees, but 1t Is quite pos sible for him to transplant great oaks and elms which have been growing for centuries from the forest direct to the ground he Is cultivating
 Directly a tree has been selected for transportation a square is marked around 1t and the workmen dig to depth Of ten feet or twenty feet. according to the gfrth of the tree This being done. channel Is made on either side of the tree and two tunnels bored through its roots. III which powerful beams are inserted.
 Round these beams chains are placed at each end, and the tree Is lifted as It stands on to a wagon which IS Wa1t'hg in readiness, and from thence transport ed to its destination. Forest oaks cost from to 20 pounds apiece, so that an avenue of these monsters can easily prove expensiye. An avenue of cedars, however, Is the ambition of most garden lovers, and their cost is enormous. Quite re- gently a well known fnancier purchased thirty such trees at a cost of 25o pounds apiece and had them conveyed bodily a distance of over 300 miles.
 Rivers and lakes teeming with goldfish or trout are comparatively easy to make. If there is a stream in the neighborhood It's course can be diverted and, by dahl ming a lake of any size can be formed within a few days. The cost of an arti- ffcial lake, guaranteed not to dry up i'll summer. averages 90 pounds.
 But the beauty of the artificial garden is its ruins However well the ground may be laid out, with lakes and foun- tains meeting the eye at every turn, It lacks an ancient appearance unless tum- ble-down ruins may be seen amid the trees. Artificial abbeys and churches cdh be SO built that even an expert may Je deceived the blackened stones and ivy hung walls resembling those of Norman ori=!n.
 The landscape gardener will supply you with ancient abbeys in any number from 15O to 400 pounds apiece. Here and theHe, too. the garden can be given venerable appearance with the aid of all ancient grotto or two. These grottoes are built of limestone, and then deliberately spray ed with dirt and grime. Quite nice lit tie grotto. apparently a couple of centu- ries old, can be supplied for 10 pound note.
 The cost of such gardening Is naturally very heavy, but the result well repays the outlay. For instance, a well-known baronet last year created for himself :n Surrey an ancestral estate at cost Of 10000 pounds. exclusive of the house. The bill for trees alone amounted to 1s,WO pounds, and another 4.OOO pounds was spent in bringing soil from America in making a ''ume-honored" abbey 2.5O0 was expended, while 5000 pounds was laid out in a lake for jack and three trout streams.