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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



roads to beautify their 

 stations ; have unsightly 

 buildings hidden, and 

 make their roads attrac- 

 tive by judicious plant- 

 ing of trees, shrubs and 

 vines." 



In a recent journey to 

 Boston, the writer was 

 particularly charmed with 

 the landscape art dis- 

 played about the stations 

 of the Boston and Albany 

 Railroad, shrubbery be- 

 ing so disposed along 

 the carriage drive and 

 turns as to charm the 

 eye without interfering 

 with their usefulness. 

 "The transformation ef- 

 fected by the Boston and Albany Railroad, 

 says W. H. Manning, Secretary of the 

 American Park and Out Door Association : 

 "is too well known to need much comment. 

 Its stations and surroundings are known all 

 over the country for their beautiful appear- 

 ance and economy of arrangement. An 

 expert gardener, with a corps of assistants, 



Fig. 2383. Well Planted Herbaceous Border 



Fig. 2382. An AttiIACtive Railway Station. 



gives his entire time to the work which 

 covers sixty acres. Although the road 

 maintains a nursery of hardy plants near 

 Boston, the stations themselves are practi- 

 cally its real nurseries, the plants being 

 thinned out and cuttings made at regular 

 intervals. The scheme of planting this road 

 is unique, in that flowering shrubs and trees 

 are the sole material used, 

 invariably suitable mate- 

 rials for the combat with 

 cinders, soot, dust and 

 drought, in which the is- 

 sue is the 'survival of the 

 toughest.* The compo- 

 sition of the shrubs and 

 trees remains beautiful 

 after the leaves have fal- 

 len; and the bright ber- 

 ries of autumn and winter 

 are no slight compensa- 

 tion for the mass flowers 

 and verdure of the spring 

 and summer. The 'car- 

 pet gardening' about sta- 

 tions on other roads 



