The Rebuilding of an Old Garden 
the division of beds 
within the parterres, 
but this feature, as 
it is indicated upon 
the plan, is at pres¬ 
ent considered ten¬ 
tative only. 
All of this design 
was to be carried 
out with an acre of 
box beautifully ma¬ 
tured but of wildly 
crooked growth. 
The grades estab¬ 
lished by the new 
design left many 
staggering lines of 
plants doomed to 
be buried if not 
somehow recovered 
and raised to the 
new level of the 
garden. Mr. Tay¬ 
lor was advised 
against the transplanting of box of such 
an age, but he decided that matter for him¬ 
self, secured the services of a capable engi¬ 
neer in the person of Mr. Harold Van- 
duzee, hired his laborers and horses and set 
about the task. 
Where a few months ago the old garden 
reigned in stillness broken only by notes of 
joyous birds, the pandemonium of labor 
now prevails amid a confusion of green 
verdure, men and horses, freshly turned 
earth, scaffolding and gear in which only 
a sharp observer can picture the new gar¬ 
den which is in the making. The rolling 
THE MASS SUPPORTED BY THE TRUSS 
ground of the garden has everywhere suf¬ 
fered upheaval; and here and there single 
bushes await, almost tottering upon a ridge 
of earth, their turn to be borne away to 
new locations. 
The transplanting of the box is accom¬ 
plished in the following elaborate manner. 
A trench is dug on each side and parallel to 
a line of bushes to be removed. A row of 
short planks is placed upright and close 
together around this rectangular mass of 
earth containing the bushes and their roots. 
Steel plates with sharpened edges are then 
driven horizontally through the soil below 
TURNING THE HEDGE BEFORE MOVING 
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