Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-27
NO. 2O3.

men, are even guilty of cherishing this taste for floral cultivation among the work
 CTS on the line. They not only give their employees garden allotments to cultivate peas and beans, cabbages and potatoes, fruit and flowers, but one board of directors (that of the Midland railway votes an annual sum of one hundred pounds to be distributed in prizes over the line for the most neatly-kept platform gardens at the passenger stations. Last year QS65) as many seventy-six sta
 tlons competed, and the prizes were gradua- ted from ten pounds to five shillings. The result was very gratifying.
 Even stations such as Armley at Leeds and Brlghtside at Sheffield, which are enveloped in foundry smoke and vitriolic vapors, de- spite their antagonistic surroundings, suc- ceeded in producing pretty floral effects. At other stations, where the vegetation was in a less degree liable to be parched on the rail way slopes, and suffered in minor degree from engine sparks and ''smuts," the effect
 of the efforts put forth was most encoura-
 ging. At Kinnersley, station on the South
 Wales section, clay banks were converted
 into terraces of flowers and ''the desert was
 made to smile" At Blakewell, banks before
 rough and unsightly were planted with car
 pet-like turf and diversified with flower de-
 signs and devices in shining Derbyshire
 spar. In the spring they were gay with tu-
 lips and hyacinths. People came from a
 distance to see them. In the summer bed
 ding plants were substituted while rustic
 baskets with ferns and trailing fora were
 suspended from the roof of each platform.
 It is eminently satisfactory to learn that
 at the stations where the borders are kept the
 best the public have most assisted in pre- serving the plants. Where the flowers have been most profuse the customers of the line have been most jealous custodians. The much-maligned Hcheap-tripper" has refrained from plucking them; and even on ,thronged excursion platforms, during the busy sum mer months, not a single bloom has been missed. This encouragement gives hope of even better results in future years.
 The descendants of Samuel Borman, who lived in Wethersfeld from 1640 to 1873, had a family gathering Wednesday afternoon at the Boardman building, Hartford. The ob- ject of the gathering was to form Board man family association, to provide for suitable family monument to the memory of Samuel Borman at Wethersfeld, and for 8 family historical and genealogical book. The meeting was attended by the descendants of four sons-Isaac, Samuel, Daniel and Jona- than-of the original Borman. The project of collecting data about the family has come into being largely through the efforts of the Rev. $. w. Boardman, grandson of Daniel Borman just mentioned, and for many years a pastor at Auburn, N. Y.
 At meeting of the society of the First Church of Christ of New London, held Tues day evening, the society voted to concur with the church in accepting the resignation of their pastor, the Rev. E. w. Bacon, and in calling council to be convened Sept. 1st. It was voted to continue MT. Bacon's salary till January 1st and to allow him the use of the parsonage and study until another pastor should be called.