Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1901 — Ruins Made to Order. [ARTICLE]

Ruins Made to Order.

There is hardly anything in the way of altering the face of the earth that the landscape gardener cannot carry out successfully, and any one who cares for a section of the Alps in his back garden has only to order it The much-admired ruins at Virginia Water, which many people think are genuine, were all carefully placed in position by a firm of landscape gardeners, and there is in Shropshire a model of the world-renowned falls of Gelsbach, water and all, which owes its presence to the same art, while in .Hertfordshire is a Norman castle in a most orthodox state ot ruin, but built by a Sussex firm. Cliffs can be and have

been made, and a lake with a few islands or a babbling stream are quite easy tasks.