CHAPTER XV. 



RAILWAY, CHURCHYARD, AND CEMETERY 

 LAWN-PLANTING. 



A RAILWAY LAWN. 



jN encouraging sign of the times is 

 the interest ^vhich has been mani- 

 fested of late by our railroad 

 officials in the appearance of the 

 stations on their lines. Many of 

 these buildings and surroundings, 

 which were formerly eyesores, have 

 been so beautified by the judicious 

 expenditui'e of some thought and a little money, that they 

 now lend an added charm to the landscape ; and were 

 they to be I'emoved, they would be missed with regret. 



I had occasion lately to visit one of these recently im- 

 proved stations. The natui-al surface of the ground rose 

 rapidly in the rear of the building, and along the edge of 

 the great rock mass, cut through Just here by the railroad, 

 gurgled a small, tumbling rill across the road, under a board 

 or two. Except just about the station, where everything 



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