. 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. 1400 RAILROAD GARDENING It may be well to begin an aeeouni nf railroad garden- ing witli an historical sketch. The. Moremnd in ; Iki^ been dune on the station-grounds of some English railways for many years, but it is almost exclusively limited to. 2065. Ameliorated Radishes, fourth eeneration
. 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. 1400 RAILROAD GARDENING It may be well to begin an aeeouni nf railroad garden- ing witli an historical sketch. The. Moremnd in ; Iki^ been dune on the station-grounds of some English railways for many years, but it is almost exclusively limited to. 2065. Ameliorated Radishes, fourth eeneration (X z^)- i.';iiTii:Te. (See Riulish, ^u 14xy.) purely oruaineiiTal i.^ardeuing. Tiie corporations do little beyond otff-riuij: 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 shorter t-ime on the Gre:it West- ern rail\va\ . The prizes range from 3s. to £5, and in 1900 ag;.^n"^^ilc<i f:!00 on the :Midland railway. The little phmtiiiM: that is done ))y the railway companies themselves is .-oulined to afewtreos of low growth near statitnis, to a liaid^ground of shrulis for some of the .so- called "platform ,; and to sowing liroom and gorse on certain slopes of the permanent way between stations. The "allotment t,^ardens " 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, an(l, 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
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