160 OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



growths are doing somewhat to mend the harshness ; 

 but a little artistic handling of its screening foliage, 

 and adroit seizure of the opportunities furnished for 

 special culture, will quicken the work. And it is to 

 this end that I have thrown out these hints upon so 

 novel a subject as that of railway gardening. 



