Fig. 2594 



EAILWAY GAEDENING 



IN a recent issue we g"ave prominence to 

 the pioneer work in railway gardening 

 which has been done on the Boston and 

 Albany railway, and expressed the hope that 

 the great railways of our Dominion would 

 catch the enthusiasm and make their station 

 grounds attractive to the traveler, instead of 

 an offence to the eyes of people of cultivated 

 taste, as many of them now are, 



A most praiseworthy movement in this di- 

 rection is evident in many sections, and we 

 hope soon to see it general over this whole 

 continent. We notice, for example, that the 

 Illinois Central is to establish a park at Nor- 

 mal to be well furnished with trees and 

 plants; that the Chicago, Milwaukee and 

 St. Paul is parking its station grounds at 

 Wausau, under the direction of a landscape 

 gardener ; and that the Grand Trunk will 

 surround its new station at Lansing, Michi- 

 gan, with a park, plans for which have been 

 prepared, the work to include grading, 

 planting of trees and shrubbery, laying out 

 walks, etc. 



Recently the Boston and Maine offered 

 cash prizes to their station agents for the 

 best kept gardens, providing them also with 

 a stated sum of money each for the carrying 



out of the work, so that all might be on an 

 even basis. We are able to show views of 

 the station grounds at Arlington, taken from 

 the American Garden. For these grounds 

 Mr, F. C. Morrow, the agent at Arlington, 

 won the second prize in the system. He 

 writes as follows : 



"Figure 2594 shows two plots of lawn 

 nearly square, the smaller one situated north 

 of station and between station and postoffice 

 building, in which you notice one single 

 round bed. This bed has for its centre 

 French Cannas, bordered first by red Alter- 

 nanthera, next by yellow Coleus, and next, 

 near grass, is a border of red Alternanthera. 



"The larger plot, located south ot station 

 and between railroad tracks and postoffice 

 building, has a triangular border covering 

 two sides of the lawn. This border is com- 

 posed of silver spot Salvia, bordered first by 

 yellow Coleus, and next, near the grass, 

 with red Alternanthera, In the corners of 

 this border are round beds of brown Castor 

 Beans and Caladiums, You notice three 

 beds in the centre of the lawn. The centre 

 round bed has for its centre a Sago palm. 

 At the base of the palm is a five-pointed star 

 of yellow Alternanthera, between the points 



