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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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ep, the nicer parts ofit fenced off with iron. It contains nothing remarkable. Anew corner with a small, crooked, slope-side pond was plantedin the flashiest style with golden Yews and Elders, purpleHazels and Beeches, silver Negundos, etc. In the townwere many crescents and squares, of which the simplestwere the best. The architecture is heavy, same, and unat-tractive. 150 LANDSCAPE SlUDY IN EUROPE. ENGLAND (1886 He went on the same evening to Chippenham, in order tobe able to walk to Bowood before hot noon. July 5th: — It was a hot four miles to the park gates. Then a lovelymile through great Beech woods to the large, low-spreadinghouse. The distant view of the house was very striking, itsirregular terraces coming down into the rough pasture grassof the deer park. Deer were browsing close to the foot of thesteps. A herd of some sixty deer ran close past me in thewoods. In the lake, at the foot of the slope, were many wildducks. Rabbits were plenty, of course. I hunted up the stew-
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ard in a remote corner of the manor buildings, and got leaveto see the gardens. There was a large Pinetum; but the treeswere not very large as yet. I rambled about a delightful wood-land at the foot of the lake. The lakeside was very, very good,> wild with all manner of shrubbery, Water-Lilies, and rushes ;and the dam of the lake is weU treated. There is a prettyregion of wooded mounds, where no doubt earth from the lakeexcavation was dumped. All this was done very long ago.Finally, the ancient terrace gardens before the house are keptup in the old-fashioned manner, and are very quaint, withstone-edged parterres, much balustrading, walks on differentlevels, Yews, etc. Writing to his father the next day he says, Yesterday Isaw splendid Bowood — Lansdowne place — which Mr. Henry ^T. 26) BOWOOD 151 Winthrop Sargent pronounced the second best in all Eng-land. , , . ,That evening he took train for London, where he arrived with but eight pence in pocket. His letter of credit onBaring

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