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Title: Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles W. (Charles William), 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape architects
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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>ET. 26) ANTIBES 89 Cyclamens — are confined to the immediate neighborhood ofthis lodge, and to beds of dress ground before the house. In another private place, which he examined, he speaks of a region where the original wild shrubbery has been madeto make room for a well-chosen variety of plants, which havebeen naturalized in its midst. The word naturalizeddefines what was, for him, good taste in the artificial treat-ment of rough and essentially wild regions. Again, concern-ing the same place, he says: — On a jutting point of hill is a very pleasant, well-contrived,and pretty sort of arbor, having stone piers and a roof ofcanes, its irregular groimd-plan conformed to the shape ofthe ledge, the views from within it very wide and wellframed. In a hollow, where it is not seen tiU the hollow isentered, is a small, well-built rockery, — the stones large,with no petty compartments. Some largish trees shut in thewhole hollow; but down a gulch leading to the water is acontrolling v

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