. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. PAILROAD GARDENING tree, and is well suited for making sliady alleys"; and that India rubber trees are used at smaller stations. Remarkable work has been done in Algiers. The di- rector of the P. L. M. Railroad Company writes that about 525,000 trees have been pla
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. PAILROAD GARDENING tree, and is well suited for making sliady alleys"; and that India rubber trees are used at smaller stations. Remarkable work has been done in Algiers. The di- rector of the P. L. M. Railroad Company writes that about 525,000 trees have been planted between 1809 and 1875, of which 495,000 were forest trees and 30,000 fruit trees. The prevailing forest trees are eucalypts and lo- custs ; others are mulberry, plane, pine, cypress, wil- low, poplar, oak, sycamore, mimosa. About one-fifth of the forest trees were planted about stations and watch- towers for ornament, and the remaining four-fifths were RAILROAD GARDENING 1491 evinced an interest in the care of the grounds that at- tracted the favorable attention of the assistant engi- neer, who sent him men and material for grading and sodding. This so encouraged the baggage-master that he solicited the townspeople for money to buy seeds and plants, and with such success that he maintained for three years a flower garden that favorably impressed the higher ofiicials of the road, and led to the establish- ment of similar gardens at other points, and eventually. Plans of Railroad Gardening. On the left, Aubumdale Station. Boston & Albany K. R. The plan provides for a porte cochM)), the Erie (1881), the Southern ]':i I- I â I'l-nnsylvania (1886), and the Austin Hi -t, ,-i, .,f Texas (1887). fSnininiirif nf Present Condition.âAt the present time one or two of the pioneer roads in this work have aban- doned it, while others have greatly increased its extent and improved its style, and many new ones have taken it up. Prominent amongthe latter are the I\lichigan
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