Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1894-07-18
RAILROAD HORTICULTURE.
THE BEAUTIFUL STATION TER
RACES AT NEWARK.

Landscape Gardening and Artistic Ar
rangsment Of Plants and Flowers which
Charm tho Eye OF the Weary Traveller.
A Corporation whioh Has a Love for
the Beautiful.
In point of landscape gardening and
artistic Horticulture Newark station on
the p, w and B. railroad twelve miles
below this city, surpasses any station on
the Mary land or Delaware divisions OF
the Pennsylvania railroad. There are, 10
is true, other places at which the grounds
sur ounding the stations are adorned
with flowers and shrubbery, but no
where is IL carried TO such a degree OF
perfection as at Newark, where tho hot.
houses are located aud from whence al
flowers used on the Maryland division
are shipped.
The flower beds at Newport Stanton,
Iron Hill, Eikton, North East, Perry vile,
Havre de Grace. PerrymRn's, Magnolia,
Chase's. Middle River on the Maryland
division, and Middletown, Clayton, Dover,
Wyoming. Felton and Harrington on the
Delaware division, are noticeable, but they
do not compare IN any particular will
the display Of floral and tropical plants
and shrubbery at Newark. II Is there
that Florist David Rose and his assistants
expeud their greatest skill and In
/ FenuitY In the artistic arrangement O
plants
On the south side Of the tracks, ex
tending eastward from the station. is 9
beautiful green terrace, sloping down Z,
the track IL is bordered with low anc
closely trimmed Usage hedge, and small
Norway naples. At intervals along this
terrace are ten large white urns, eacl
containing a century plant
On the north side of the tracks Is an
other terrace, wider and, save for ths
tank house, unbroken from the station
up to the siding On this terrace Mr.
Rose has displayed his genius in design
ing figures with plants.
The word Newark" Is twenty two
feet long by four feet high. The letters
are made OF echeverla plants, standing
out from the sward in bold relief 4
butterfly, beautifully tinted and o.
gigantic proportions, adorns the terracI
farther north Il is composed Of alter
nanthera and echeveria and louvenia
The insect is twelve by fifteen feet II
dimensions. A shamrock Of echeverla Il
eight feet in diameter. while beyond thi
tank-house Is a scroll Of Rlternantherl
forty feet long by three feet in depth
Beds of aloes or century plants
coleus, geraniums, French canna
banks Of vari. .coiored flowers ant
plants, we'll kept hedges of aleyagnes
aud prlyit and arbored grape-vines g
to make up harmonious display that /
wonderfully refreshing TO the waywori
and travelled stained passengers
The extensive and slightly hothouse
are lose TO the station and give EN-
ployment a. times to twenty men, tn
number varying with the season
Thousands Of plants are shipped to diff
ferent points along the road in sprinl
and summer and are returned TO the hot
houses when the early frosts come in tn
fall, with the exceptions OF the annual
which are allowed to die in their beds
A large proportion Of the flowers shipps
are ANIMALS.
Florist Parsons, Of the Delawar
division. has a creditsble display at Clay
ton, which is now headquarters for Oh
floral supply for that division.