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established, practically takes care of itself while 
increasing in beauty year by year. Neither green- 
houses, propagating plants, nor an attendant corps 
of gardeners are necessary to this more artistic 
style of planting, although the services of a land- 
scape gardener is a necessity, and the establishment 
of a small nursery might possibly 
be desirable in some cases. 
Probably the problem of railroad 
planting will be solved by continuing 
the use of tender material at points 
where greenhouses are already estab- 
lished, and placing the entire line in 
charge of a competent landscape 
gardener, who will design and super- 
intend all planting. 
Our illustrations show one view 
on the station grounds of the 
Michigan Central Railroad at Ypsi- 
lanti, Mich., which are celebrated 
for a remarkable annual display ot 
elaborate carpet-bedding of the 
most formal character, including such specimens 
as a battle ship, locomotive, society emblems 
and other subjects of difficult and complicated 
construction that may well stand as monuments 
to the skill, ingenuity and patience of John 
Laidlaw, the amiable and popular gardener in 
charge; and two views on the grounds of the same 
corporation at Niles, Mich., where the accomplished 
gardener, John Gipner, each year shows successfully 
executed designs in summer-bedding, largely in- 
formal and attractive in style, and further softened 
and improved by a charming setting of permanent. 
hardy material, the effect being further heightened 
by broad expanses of smooth, green turf — as restful 
to the eye as they are essential to good com- 
position. 
At both these stations the pretty custom of pre- 
senting a flower or a nosegay to each woman pas- 
senger on through trains is systematically followed. 
The plan of the writer for the improvement of 
the station grounds at Ann Arbor, Mich., for the 
same company, shows on a greatly reduced scale the 
work done there under her supervision last October. 
It is strictly landscape work carried out with hardy 
materials, and is a new departure in railway plant- 
ing in the West, as well as for this road; although 
as already shown, the planting at Niles is a step in 
the same direction. 
The irregular surface of the ground suggested 
the use of rather picturesque effects in the treat- 
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