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Railroad Stations and Road Beds 
THAT the business of towns 
and railroads are interde- 
pendent is axiomatic and all 
comers to your town enter it by 
way of railroad and station; and 
some.never getting beyond the 
station, form their impressions of 
the town by this observation 
and so advertise it Is it not 
then to the interest of both 
railroad and townsman that 
these impressions be good ones? 
Assuredly so. And for this 
very reason some of our large 
railway systems have installed a 
landscape department for the 
sole purpose of laying out rail- 
way parks and stations all over 
the system. On a hot summer day a stiffling depot blistering in the sun surrounded by a track of cinders that 
reflects back the heat fourfold is the least inviting place in the world. On the contrary, green grass and neat 
flower beds, or if possible a cool shady park rests the eye and refreshes the mind of the traveler, making the 
whole town more attractive to him. 
Large sums are being expended every year in just such work as this. As witness: the depots of the Great 
Pennsylvania system. This system parks great stretches of trackage sodding and planting along each side of the 
road with the ultimate aim of making it a way of unbroken lovliness. This, of course, increases patronage but 
the roads of the north and west are planting with a still more practical idea. Every year the snow drifts on the 
tracks and has to be shoveled off at a great expense of time, labor and money. Heretofore ugly and expensive 
snow sheds have been erected all along the line for the purpose of keeping the track clear. Now the Roads are 
PLANTING FOREST 
TREES ALL ALONG 
THE TRACKAGE 
which are much more effective 
in staying the drifts, and will 
last forever. 
Incidentally this makes for the 
reforestration of deforested dis- 
tricts and with reforestration will 
come distribution of rainfall, in- 
creased fertility of the soil, 
moderation of climate and a 
general increase in land values. 
We make a specialty of this 
ind of planting and have a class 
of forest trees that we can rec- 
ommend for it at an exception- 
ally low price. 
