Show IS S STUPENDOUS UNDERTAKiNG I I WONDERFUL WORK DONE DONE ON MANTI TEMPLE GROUNDS Landscape Gardening on Scale S alc Never Before re Attempted In Inter rr Mountain Inter Country Among all the tho undertakings in inland inland- land landscape gardening in the tho history of Utah there is perhaps none that can com compare in magnitude with that which is now nearing completion on the Temple grounds at Manti There are arc Several retaining walls of chiseled stono soe Jonie of them perhaps thirty feet leet high and six-hundred six feet long which will provide provide pro pro- vide ide for that many tiers of comparatively comparatively comparatively level lawn The Temple which to is a 8 beautiful baUd building constructed ted toy for or the m mt most j t part of Ephraim polito stone is bitu bit bit- bit eit- u ted on a n hi high h knoll at the foot of the mountain range ranee Within the past two years a wide vide cement stairway I with numerous landings has been constructed constructed constructed con con- at tho front of tho the Temple This leads the pedestrian from fro from the st street at tho the foot Coot of tho the knoll to the front o of tho the edifice edifies When the landscape gardener gardene has finished d his work this thia stairway will be bordered with a steep triangular t. l lawn wn from the street t to with within n fifty feet of tho the top landing and beyond thia point there will be bo narrow row strips of ot level lavE lawn and a b beautiful driveway which ch crosses the tho cement sidewalk imm 1 in ia front of the main entrance c to the Temple Pipes for carrying water t to th theao laws a are e now being boing laid and i it requires re quires no great imaginative power payer to picture some beautiful flower beds on the these lawns 9 Oa Ca the tho h w Y t th the street stroet opp the opposite tile the front front- of f stair stairway way is a beautiful lawn which forms the entrance entra to the tho cemetery Perhaps the tho l lawns on of the tho hillside will be bo made to harmonize wi with h this typo type of ot landscape land land- gardening At the rear of the Temple is a retaining wall perhaps GOO long and nd thirty five five f feet ct hi high h at sit iia highest point This Thia is a continuation of the rear wall of the tho driveway under the Temple and is doubtless part of ot the plan of the tho architect I n extends extends ex ex- tends to the tho top of the knoll and provides provides provides pro pro- vides for the tho highest terrace which it is said will bo be used as the tle sits site of a beautiful grove Another long stone staircase herders bord herd borders borders ers tho driveway on the to tho the rear roar of the tho building This driveway driveway drive drive- way when complo edv as smooth as the tho b bast macadam and will lead through a wonderland nd of lawn and flowers It tho plO and aud andis is fa app approached from both the tho south and tho wes west The Tho Manti 1 Temple Templo has long been admired admire for tho the beauty of its architecture archi archi- oct t-oct ro and for tho the impression which it makes on the passer by because of the prominent position which it holds at tho the top of the tho mound The work York which is being done at present is as as the architecture of building and nud iq doubtful if there is another another an au- other piece of landscape gardening in inthe inthe inthe the W West est that tha can be compared with that on the grounds ground of or tho ManU Manti Temple |