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is to plan for convenience, so that persons coming 

 to the station, whether in vehicles or on foot, will 

 reach it in an easy natural way. There should be 

 ample room to unload passengers along the plat- 

 form, or to receive them as they come from trains. 

 If there is any angle about the station building not 

 used, it can be occupied with vines, bushes, or per- 

 haps a tree. If a city street adjoins the grounds 

 of the station, perhaps the farther side can 

 be planted rather thickly, and the near side kept 

 relatively open, the resulting space being broad- 

 ened by the combination and giving a dignified 

 effect. If the station grounds adjoin private prop- 

 erty, any unsightly buildings or fences thereon 

 should be planted out (Fig. 51). A thick plantation 

 of shrubs such as lilacs, syringa bushes, viburnums 

 or thickly branched trees, like hawthorns, would 

 be suitable for this purpose, and such growth would 

 make a desirable background for flowers. Often, 

 in planting flowers, it would be wise to select per- 

 ennials, since the cost of their maintenance would 

 be small and also they would be effective during a 

 greater part of the year. Goldenrods, for example, 

 are often attractive even when dead and brown. 

 Their graceful shapes, especially when partly cov- 



