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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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n. Now, before the leaves open, is thetime to make this survey. 7 March, 90. My Dear Sir, — I have your check, — very prompt pay-ment, indeed.^ I do recommend a fence. It prevents much destructivecross-cutting, and saves woods and lawns from damage. Inevery possible way the people should be taught that the parkis a bit of New England scenery which is held, close to theirhomes, in trust for the enjoyment not only of themselves butof all future generations. It can be so preserved only by apublic opinion which will condemn all injurious practices likepeeling bark, breaking trees, and trampling grass. The paths offer a means of enjoying the scene without in-juring it, — this is the reason they are made. I would havea plain fence of stout pickets, or better of strong boards of 1 Charless entire charge for his own work on White Park was 6300. 230 A PLAIN PARK FENCE (1890 even width, and spaced evenly, and sawed off to give a flowingupper line. The flows of this line should be long,—
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30-50 feet each. Then I would post a notice to the follow-ing effect, though not necessarily in these words : — City of Concord. Park Commission, White Park. Notice. This Woodland — the gift of Armenia S. White — is heldin trust for the enjoyment of the citizens of Concord in theirsuccessive generations. All who enter here will bear in mindthat they are fellow-trustees in this trust, and they will con-sequently avoid, and, if necessary, prevent any injury to thebanks, lawns, trees, shrubs, or flowering plants. Here might follow in smaller type whatever ordinance youmay frame to cover offences of this sort. I hope your interesting undertaking may move on pros-perously. In August, 1890, when the work on White Park was welladvanced, he wrote for Garden and Forest the followingdescription of the Park, taking the opportunity to urge thatevery American city and town preserve for its citizens enjoy-ment some characteristic portion of its neighboring country: — WHITE PAEK, CONCORD, NE

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