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PAR.K AND CEMETERY 
It will be found far better to remove the sod and 
make a bed (the same as for flowers) large enough 
to contain shrubbery, rather than setting it in holes 
cut in the sod. It is all right to set a single specimen 
plant in a hole only large enough to receive it, but it 
is extremely amateurish to attempt to make groups 
or borders of shrubs by treating each individually. Be 
sure that the group or border is rightly placed and 
rightly proportioned and then make a bed large 
railway station, note that the planting and care are 
not limited to the station grounds proper, but extend 
to the adjacent right of way. This is important to 
improvement organizations, as it is necessary that the 
entire railway right of way through a town or com- 
munity should be cared for. No^dumping on rail- 
way grounds should be allowed, and all land abutting 
on railway property should be especially looked after 
and kept neat as well as attractively planted. Barns 
NEWTON HIGHE.^NDS, MASS., B. & A. RY. 
Note that planting’ and care are not limited to the station ground proper but extend to the adjacent right of way. 
enough to contain all the plants that are to compose 
it. It is frequently desirable to isolate a single fine 
specimen or a small group of well chosen variety on 
the lawn a few feet in advance of such a bed, but the 
bulk of a border should occupy a bed and become a 
mass. It is said to be not possible to worship both 
God and Mammon; neither is it possible for a bor- 
der to be both a border and a part of a lawn at one 
and the same time. 
In the illustration of the Newton Highlands, Mass., 
and outbuildings on lots adjoining railway ground 
should be screened with vines and shrubs, and no 
unkempt back yards should be visible from the win- 
dows of passing trains, like unkempt heads peering 
from the squalid quarters of a great city. Civic 
pride and ordinary “good citizenship” forbid the di- 
rect criticism invited by the existence of such condi- 
tions as prevail in most communities in this connec- 
tion. 
^ranees Copley Seavey. 
STONE RAILWAY STATION, STOCKBRIDGE, MASS. 
Secured by the Laurel Hill Improvement Association by bearing the additional expense over and above the cost of an 
ordinary wooden building. The partial view of station grounds planted and maintained by the Association is said by the 
Secretary, Miss Alice B. Averill, “hardly to do it justice,” the rustic fence around the shrubbery appearing “offensively 
prominent,” and other features not being shown. 
