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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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John Claudius Loudon. Observations on the Theory and Practice ofLandscape Gardening, etc. Edinburgh, Svo. 1806. . A Treatise on forming, improving, and man-aging Country Residences. London, 2 vols., 4to. 1808. Alexandre Louis Joseph, Comte de Laborde. — Descriptions desNouveaux Jardins de la France. Paris, folio. 1812. John Claudius Loudon. — Hints on the Formation of Gardens andPleasure Groxmds. London, 4to. 1818. F. L. von Sckell, Landsehafta-gartner. — Beitrage zur bildenden Gartenkunst. Munich, Svo. 1819. Gabriel Thouin, architecte-paysagiste. — Plans raisonu^s de toutes les Esp^ces de Jardins. Paris, folio.1819. ViART, architecte-paysagiste. — Le Jardiniste Moderne, etc. Paris, 12mo.1822. John Claudius Loudon. — An Encyclopaedia of Gardening, etc. Loudon, Svo.1832. William S. Gilpin. — Practical Hints on Landscape Gardening.1834. FiJKST Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Puckler-Muskau. An- deutungen ilber Landschafts-gartnerei. Stuttgart, folio. T ^•^Vxvoc)/^, mA^^ lit)
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CHAPTER XII THREE CONGENIAL UNDERTAKINGS. TWO PARKS ANDA CHURCH SITE Laying out grounds, as it is called, may be considered as a liberalart, in some sort like poetry and painting : and its object, like that ofall the liberal arts, is, or ought to be, to move the affections under thecontrol of good sense ; that is, of the best and wisest. . . . No liberalart aims merely at the gratification of an individual or a class ; thepainter or poet is degraded in proportion as he does so: the true ser-vants of the Arts pay homage to the human kind as impersonated inunwarped and enlightened minds. — Wordsworth. In September, 1887, Charles prepared a plan for the improvement of the ancient Common at Newburyport, the towifrom which came his great-grandmother, Catherine Atkins,the second wife of Samuel Eliot of Boston. This Commonincluded a deep pond of variable level, sunk between steepbanks. On one side of it, at the top of the bank, was thtBartlet Mall, dating from 1800, and this Mall was adorn

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