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lack of necessity for changes in a well-thought-out de- 

 sign, there would be much less, instead of greater, 

 expense. 



Let us turn, in further consideration of the subject, to 

 the accompanying plan of a station on one of the main 

 railroad lines of the country, and see how some of the 

 details of the work should be carried out. It will be 

 readily seen that the stopping-place in question is one of 

 considerable importance, and should, therefore, furnish 

 abundant open graveled space for the rapid gathering 



TREATMENT OP RAILROAD STATION GROUNDS 



and leaving of carriages and other vehicles. In the 

 center, in front of the station door, however, there has 

 been designed, in order to relieve the general bareness 

 of the open graveled space, an oval or oblong lawn of 

 eighty feet in diameter, in which a fountain basin is 

 located of unassuming character, having no sculpturesque 

 accessories, but simply an abundant spray of water. In 

 this basin a few water-lilies are to be grown, and around 

 its outer edge a small grouping of brilliant-looking 

 bedding-plants, acalyphas, geraniums, and alternantheras, 

 is arranged in varied and well-contrasted masses. This 

 is intended to be the only bit of brilliant leaf-color made 



