EFFECTIVE FOUNDATION 
PLANTING ABOUT A 
WATER-TOWER 
Imagine the ugly rawness of such 
an edifice without this friendly 
clothing of green to hide its base 
and bind it to earth. At Jenkin- 
town ,Pa., on the Philadelphia and 
Reading Railway 
RAILSIDE GARDENING IN CALI¬ 
FORNIA 
A certain orderly beauty is created by 
the “bedding-out” type of gardening 
once much in vogue but being rapidly 
supplanted nowadays by more gracious 
and less artificial gardening ways. At 
San Rafael, a station of the Northwestern 
Pacific Railroad Co. 
WHERE SHRUBS GIVE GOOD SERVICE 
One of the quickest ways to abolish bareness is 
by a liberal use of shrubs many of which grow 
rapidly and are interesting not only at (lowering 
and fruiting time but all the season through. 
Select those whose leafage is attractive in shade 
and shape and, when feasible, include some ever¬ 
greens for winter color, Orchard, Park, N. Y., of 
the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Ry. 
LITTLE PARKS BEGIN TO FLANK THE RAILWAYS 
The possibilities of planting along railroads 
and about stations are legion and each com¬ 
munity must select the type best adapted to 
its own peculiar needs. A simply treated open 
park space at Mahwah, New Jersey, on the Erie 
Railroad, which would gain in effect if the shrubs 
were properly thinned out instead of being ruth¬ 
lessly sheared back 
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