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gradient to the roads and a natural appearance to the banks g into the hill interfered with the natural drainage, and, despite often forced its way out of some unexpected place after a spell Like Sisyphus, we had repeatedly to take up the same task, The stone for the house, which came from Bath, and most of ‘y, were conveyed on a temporary steam tram from the railway were drawn on rails by a cable engine. Other materials for s, and lodges, and the trees and the shrubs, had to be carted rted from Normandy for this purpose, and they proved most 1 faster over the ground and were much cheaper than Shire 1 worn out they went to the stud. onnexion with the cartage of large trees which were brought e moving of which on to the highways the telegraph wires isplanted with huge balls of earth round their roots, and were having been conveyed to the required spot on specially con- iorses. The trees answered their purpose for the time, for But if I may venture to proffer a word of advice to any one s to abstain from transplanting old trees, limes and chestnuts ore than thirty or forty years old. Older trees, however great red in the process, rarely recover the injury to their roots, or onditions in which they have been grown. Young trees try old ones, and make better timber and foliage. 1 to be accomplished before any appreciable show was made. 7