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P,ARK AND 
CEMETERY 
PLAN FOR PARK MUSEUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN 
City Forester John Boddy of Cleve- 
land before the end of the Johnson ad- 
ministration, formulated plans for con- 
verting the space now occupied by the 
old “zoo” enclosures and buildings, in 
Wade Park, into a horticultural and 
botanical center of interest and enjoy- 
ment. He suggested that there should 
be a conservatory, a horticultural mu- 
seum and a botanical garden, all con- 
nected and grouped effectively. 
With a conservatory, of course, should 
go outdoor gardens which teach botany 
in the most attractive and effective way. 
A horticultural museum is somewhat less 
imperative, but it falls naturally into 
the same group of park features. , 
Cleveland has a magnificent system 
of parks and boulevards. Nature did 
much for the city in that respect, and the 
primitive beauties of ravines and hill 
slopes, and the shore of the lake and the 
streams which flow through woods and 
open meadows, have been great!}- en- 
hanced b}' the work done upon the pub- 
lic pleasure grounds which enrich many 
outlying districts. There are a large 
number of noble old forest trees in the 
parks, and the opportunities for land- 
scape gardening have been exceptionally 
good from the outset. 
Now all that remains is to complete 
the work already accomplished, and as 
a long step in that direction the addi- 
tion the addition of a conservatory and 
a botanical garden has been strongly 
urged. The accompanying illustration 
shows Mr. Boddy’s suggestive plan for 
the proposed improvement. 
PROPOSED LOCATION 
OF 
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OEAR'T 
WtTH SUGGE&TED ARRANGEMENT 
OF 
HORTICULTURAL BUILDINGS 
AND 
BOTANICAL GARDENS 
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GeNe-KAL. Plan 
Showing pROPOseoCHANGE 
PLAN FOR HORTICULTURAL BUILDINGS IN CLEVELAND PARK. 
John Boddy, I^andscape Arch. 
RAILWAY GARDENING ASSOCIATION AT BOSTON 
The American Association of Railroad 
Gardeners held an interesting and suc- 
cessful meeting at Boston, September 5 
and G, and changed its name to the Rail- 
way Gardening Association. 
President George B. Moulder of the 
Illinois Central Railroad called the first 
clay’s session to order at the Crawford 
House on Monday at 10 a. m., and the 
routine business was transacted. A tour 
of inspection of the station grounds and 
plantations of the Boston & Albany 
Railroad under the escort of E. A. Rich- 
ardson followed, and a stop was made 
at Woodland for the afternoon meeting, 
when the president read his address 
and Secretary J. S. Butterfield, of the 
Missouri Pacific System, Lee’s Summit, 
Mo., presented his report. 
An able address on the “Results of 
Neater Appearance” was made by N. S. 
Dunlop of the Canadian Pacific and 
Walter E. Cook presented a greeting 
from Vaughan’s Seed Store. 
E. A. Richardson of the Boston & Al- 
bany read a paper on “The Cinder 
Problem,” and J. A. Byrne of the B. & 
O., presented the following paper on 
■“The Arrangement of the Ideal Station 
Grounds.” 
.4KKANOE.AIEXT OF THE IDEAL STATION 
GROUNDS. 
By J. A. Byrne 
There is a great diversity of opinion as 
to what the arrangement of station grounds 
should be, some insisting that only a well- 
kept sod and shrubbery should be used, 
others that there should be a liberal use of 
perennials and so on. Now', for my part, I 
think that a compromise should be made 
and some w^ell-kept beds of bright flowers 
should be added so as to keep up a display 
of brightness all summer, as through the 
greater i^art of it the display of bloom from 
shrubbery is small. 
A railroad is supposed to cater to the 
general public and in the public w'e find 
many tastes. Some like one thing and some 
another, so we must try to please all, and 
from the size and shape of grounds at sta- 
tions try to meet the ideas of all, taking 
our cue from the wu-itings or conversation 
of people who have traveled in this and 
other countries and on observations we can 
make ourselves if w^e have the mind. Trav- 
elers speak in glowing terms of the parks 
and gardens they have visited, but you can 
alw^ays notice in their talk they seem to 
linger most over the beautiful flowers. Now 
in our own visits to parks w'hat observations 
can we make? The arrangement of grass, 
trees, shrubbery and flowers in most of 
them is truly beautiful, but wfliere do we 
find people lingering the longest? Most 
of them find much to admire in everything 
they see, but you will notice that there are 
more people and that they spend more time 
among the J)eds of flow'^ers than anywhere 
else; like bees and butterflies they, too, are 
attra,cted -by the brightness and fragrance. 
From observing this we can take a lesson to 
start with, we must try to attract and please 
all w'ho travel. 
In our station grounds we find a diversity 
of shapes and sizes, in some a small grass 
plot with possibly a half-dozen shrubs will 
be sufficient, in. others a combination of 
brightness in the way of shrubbery and 
well-kept beds of flowers will add to the 
attractiveness; for my own part I have 
often listened on the cars and at stations 
to the conversation of people who have 
traveled here and in Europe commenting on 
roads that they have traveled over, and 
w'ith few exceptions the most praise was 
given, the roads that gave most attention to 
the beautifying of its station grounds. 
We must bear in mind that we cannot 
always have our own way in our work; we 
can only go as far as our employers will 
let us, but we must not be discouraged 
but keep on trying and do the best we can 
under the circumstances; if we all do this 
our work will ultimately succeed. A little 
success on one road and a little on another 
will help to attract attention, and then 
one road will try to outdo another in its 
station grounds as they now do in the com- 
fort and speed of their trains and in the 
general efficiency of their equipment. 
“The Trials of a Railroad Gardener,” 
was the subject of an address by J. 
Gipner of the Michigan Central, and C. 
H. Fritschler of the N. C. & St. L. spoke 
on “How to Grow Carnations.” “Prop- 
agating Shrubs” was discussed in an in- 
teresting address by H. A. Bode of the 
Illinois Central, and R. J. Rice of the 
Michigan Central read a paper on “The 
Effect of Railroad Gardening on the 
