OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



taste, is even now worth something, and it is 

 coming to be worth more, year by year. 



RAILWAY GARDENING 



I HAVE alluded to the railway station and its 

 surroundings, because it seems to me that — in 

 the lessons of public taste which are being read 

 from time to time by those competent to teach 

 on such topics — this new junction of the world 

 with country localities is being sadly over- 

 looked. Where indeed can there be a hope- 

 ful opening for any aesthetic teaching, if this 

 inoculation and grafting-point of the business 

 world with the world ruminant and rural, is 

 allowed to fix, with all its ugly swell of swath- 

 ing bandages and pitch and mud, uncared for ? 

 The question of proprietorship might give 

 some difficulty, but it is one whose difficulties 

 would vanish, if only the corporate authorities 

 of town and road could be brought to act in 

 harmony. Nor is there any reason in the econ- 

 Qmies of the matter why they should not. The 

 road secures a limited area for the establish- 

 ment of its station, and some outlying grounds, 

 in most cases, to guard against future contin- 

 gencies—which grounds usually rest in a most 



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