RAILROAD GARDENING 



, and is -well suitpd for makins sharty alloys": antl 



RAILROAD GARDENING 



ousts ; others are 

 low, poplar, oak, s; 

 the forest 



2067. Plans of Railroad Gardenine. 



On the left, Auburndale Station. Boston & Albany R. R. The plan provides for a porte 

 driveways, steps to an overhead bridge and to an underground passage. 



' " Both reproduced from "Garden and Forest." 



On the right. Chestnut ; 



Station, Mass. 



to the adoption of a system of planting which has, 

 under intelligent, artistic supervision, been radically 

 changed in style till it now stands as the nearest 

 approach to a comprehensive and consistent example 

 of railroad gardening known in this or in any other 



Among the first railway companies to improve their 

 station-grounds bv plunting were the Central of New 



-Tr : . l-i-'i., •],.' r:Mi; n ,V- Ohio (date uncertain), 



I- ' '" - Hi.- New York Central & 



.1 I- ' le (1881). the Southern 



i >,, ', I i: a (1886), and the Austin 



a III, I,,- r ■ .».— At the present time 



one 01- 1 . I . I ■ i- ill this work have aban- 

 doned Hi I ! at ly increased its extent 



and iiiii' ' ' ■' ' . . .n i i;i;ni\' new ones have taken 



il lip. I'loiMMHiii ;nn.iii-ili,. liiitri-.-irotlio Jii.'lii-an Cen- 



tli'. h-l'a«-a'irl'(lnM~V,i,.ll',',. i1iil,.„i,.l|' Ina \ lv.'■:Hli'll;,^ the 



Jersey, i 

 d Brook. 

 ,te presi.l, 



t.iiii .1 •■■ : more at Buckhorn Point, on 



a HOI-' ■ / - ■ ,;•: li.tween the tracks and tlo- 

 ediio o|' ;i |,rr,i|.ih,u- li,ijl,r overlooking the valli/v of 

 the riioat riv.-r. 



In 1880. the Boston & Albany Company built a new 

 station .at Newtonville. Mass., and a baggage - master 

 (name unknown) who took charge at that point in 1881 



rect planting, but seek to .socun' ilo- .niliollisliment 

 of station-grounds by offering annual loizo^ To certain 

 eraploj'ees. This plan has prov. d fairly satisfactory 

 and should become far more so undor a uniform, well- 

 defined system of improvement and with competent 

 supervision. 



The planting so far done consists largely of strictly 

 ornamental gardening, that is, of formal grouping, ear- 

 pot-bedding, and of similar planting composed offender 

 niateri.al, but it is encouraging to note evidences of 

 L'lowing dissatisfaction with this ephemeral style of 

 lioitioultural improvement. The most lirilliant and pro- 

 giossive railroad men are (|uick to nionni/o its limi- 

 tations and defects, om o tli. ii iin I I I 1 II' i, tod to 

 the matter, and, seeing its i.i.ia ill i i, suits, 



to look for something b. n< i i ising 



knowledge in this direction an . . i, m i *ion o~f 



