The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-09
Railway Stations in England.

Fro,n .stpglish md American Railways, In
Harpcr'sfor August.
In the management OF stations Lt'e
English and American ternlni are
| about on a par, but their MINOR ana
country station are mcomparap'y
| better managed than ours. The bar
| and r~efreshment counter is a pfoml-
nent feature OF every station OF note,
and has been wrought to a decree OF
Importance that is wholly unknown
under similar conditions IN America.
| 1t is a great convenience to travellers,
| and conduces to much drinking, and
| to eating that is of a character quite
as favorable to dyspepsia as anything
known in America.
The country stations look Tor the
| most part like comfortable homes OF
favored and stalwarts tatlon-masters.
There is generally some space about
| them that can be used as a garden,
and this, however small, is frequently
kept CAV with flowers. Two OF The
great companies offer rewards Tor the
! best-kept stations and signal-boxes,
and on these lines flowery stations are
naturally most common, but on n
| other lines youmay often see attempts
| to get rid of the inherent hldeousness
| that clings to a railway. The usual
garden is a marrow strip between the
platform for passengers ana the IN
closing railing. 1t is enacted by Par
lament that no post, rail brother OBJ
| stacle shall come nearer than six feet
from the edge of theplatform, and this
makes it necessary to inclose quite a
| wide space. Between the SIX feet of
platform and the fence is the
station-master's garden. The flowers
that he grows differ according to
the soil of the district. In a
rich clay he will have standard rose
trees as the principal feature; in a
warm, light soil his strong point may
be the chrysanthemums tied back
against the palings. But as his object
is 10 have plenty of color all the year
round, you will generally find that the
main part of the border is filled with
fresh plants in each season, such as
the gardener uses for his spring and
summer beds. In the spring there are
double daises, red and white, that
blossom from February till June. blue
forgen-me-nots (Myosotis dtssitltlora)
that keeps gay almost as long, pam
sizes. wall-f1owers and the yellow alys-
sum and white iberis-hardy crucifer-
Gus plants that grow in big clumps
against the edging of tile or ornamen-
tai stone, breaking the stiffness OF the
line, and bringing a mass OF flowers III
early spring. In May or early June,
when all danger CT frost is over, he
will plant geraniums, calceolarias To-
belias and such like tender peren-
mails, and his sweet peas, convol-
vuli, nemophila, and other ANIMALS
will come into blossom. But the gay
est time of all is in late summer and
early autumn, for then his garden is
full of dahlias, nasturtiums trainedup
the fence, China ~asters, marigolds
(French and African), phloxcs, and all
the gaudy flowers that comeinto bios
som after the kindly influence of a few
warm months. These and many 9th
er plants are to be found in most of
the gardens; but as all gardening that
is done lovingly shows individuality,
you will notice as youtravel that each
Ststtioi tiiS SoihS l'.tt titAtiul uoNcI ny
which you can remember 1.-THE roses
at Halton junction, the dahlias at
Milcote. There has been notllingmore
welcome in American railroadmanage-
ment than the imitation OF our Eng
fish brethren in their treatment of
their stations, and nothingis regarded
with a more lively or sympathetic in
terest hanthehorticultura
and struggles ofthe station-masters on
some OF our leading lines.