. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1490 RAILROAD GARDENING RAILROAD GARDENING It may be well to begin an account of railroad garden- ing with an historical sketch. Tlie Movement in England. —Vlsjxtmg has been done on the station-grounds of some English railways for many years, but it is almost exclusively limited to. 2065. Ameliorated Radishes,
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1490 RAILROAD GARDENING RAILROAD GARDENING It may be well to begin an account of railroad garden- ing with an historical sketch. Tlie Movement in England. —Vlsjxtmg has been done on the station-grounds of some English railways for many years, but it is almost exclusively limited to. 2065. Ameliorated Radishes, fourth generation (X K). After Oarriere. (See Radish, page 1488.) purely ornamental gardening. The corporations do little beyond offering prizes to station-masters and their as- sistants. This system has been in operation for about twenty-tive years on the Great Eastern, since 1885 on the Midland, and for a sliorter time on the Great West- ern railway. The prizes range from 5s. to £5, and in 1900 aggregated £3U0 on the Midland railway. The little planting that is done by the railway companies themselves is confined to a few trees of low growth near stations, to a background of shrubs for some of the so- called "platform gardens," and to sowing broom and gorse on certain slopes of the permanent way between stations. The " allotment gardens " that attract attention on English roads are small tracts near stations that are rented to employees of the roads, who use them as vege- table, fruit, and, to some extent, as flower gardens. The Railway Banks Floral Association is a new and interesting factor in the improvement of English rail- way rights of way. Lord Grey was the originator of the novel and excellent scheme. The society is an organi- zation for interesting owners of adjacent property, and for collecting money and materials for sowing and planting railway "banks" (downward slopes) and "cut- tings" (upward slopes) of the permanent wa
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