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PARK AND CEMETERY 
STATION garden. ASHLEY HILL, NEAR BRISTOL, GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, ENGLAND. 
Tde bare embankment beyond the station is to be planted with Herbaceous Perennials, Bulbs and Shrubs. 
torv results. A letter from iNIiss Pease, honorable 
treasurer of the association, Pendower, Newcastle-on- 
Tyne, dated less than a year after its formation, says : 
“The Northumberland branch of the association has 
been started such a short time that there is not very 
much to tell of its work as yet. The association has 
nothing- to do with the ‘allotment gardens’ (railway 
ground allotted by railway officials for the use of cer- 
tain employes of the road, — a custom common to most 
European countries as well as to Great Britain), and 
the ‘station gardens’ are left entirely in the hands of 
the station masters and porters, and prizes for the 
best are given each year by the directors of the roads. 
^^'e have nothing to do with any of these, but deal 
exclusively with the hanks and cuttings along the per- 
manent way, — trying to interest people whose ]iroper- 
ties touch the railway on each side. A great many 
people who live between Newcastle and Berwick have 
taken lengths of the line and have planted the hanks 
and cuttings with all sorts of hardy shrubs and plants, 
and 10,000 bulbs have been set out. In many in- 
stances we find the permanent way inspector and men 
(corresponding to what are known as the “section boss 
and gang” in the United States) are keenly interested. 
One inspector, living near us at Alumouth, has a beau- 
tiful length of garden, shrubs and fruit trees on each 
side of his house. 1 am treasurer of the association 
and now have ( 1900) about £60 in hand. We have 
bought some 10,000 trees and shrubs which are now in 
a nursery and which will be given out to be planted 
as they are wanted.” 
The association also issued printed directions re- 
garding the sowing of grass and of flower seeds, the 
use of bulbs and the choice and treatment of herba- 
ceous perennials and -of shrubs and vines. 
While I have been unsuccessful in obtaining recent 
information from this organization directly, I under- 
stand that it is going on with the good work, — a work 
LONGWOOD, MASS. AN ADMIRABLE EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN PLANTING ON A RAILWAY 
“CUTTING,” BOSTON & ALBANY R. R. 
