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burghers who are interested in the growth of town- 

 ships make a note of this fact, and do somewhat for 

 the benefit of the coming generation as well as for 

 their own advantage, by so ordering the establish- 

 ment of railway stations as to determine and insure 

 the attractive features I have named ? 



Landscape Treatment of Railways. 



\\J HILE upon this subject of railway gardens 

 * and culture, I have a word to say to all who 

 have lands adjoining upon these iron clamps of our 

 present civilization. A great accession of responsi- 

 bility comes to them by reason of their position. A 

 slatternly wall, a disgraceful method of tillage, a reek- 

 ing level of undrained land, in far away districts, may 

 corrupt but few young farmers and confirni them in 

 bad practices, by reason of their isolation. But upon 

 a great highway of travel, where a thousand eyes 

 measure the shortcomings day by day, a good or a 

 bad example will have a hundred-fold force. 



It would seem, indeed, as if a shrewd business 

 economy would commend care and nicety of tillage. 

 The adventurous hair-dressers and fabricators of a 

 myriad nostrums, paint their advertisements on the 

 rocks ; what better advertisement of a farm or garden, 

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