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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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ge plants, and grouped upon the grassnear the angles of the walks are specimens of such trees asthe Flowering Magnolias, the Red-flowering Horse-chestnut,the Weeping Elm, the Swamp Cypress, the Ginkgo, theOriental Spruce, the Swiss Stone Pine, and the MountainPine (P. Mughus). Such specimen plants are certainly quitein place in a formal garden intended to be decorative. Theyshould, however, be chosen for their appropriateness, andgrouped with due regard to the effect upon their neighbors.The Mountain Pine just mentioned is too roughly pictur-esque to appear in a garden like this where elegance is theend and aim. A glance at the sketch plan will explain the arrangementof the numerous minor buildings and enclosures of the estate.The completeness of the equipment is remarkable. There ^T. 29) ITS COMPLETENESS 249 are buildings for all purposes, — they are not all namedupon the plan, — and elaborate facilities for the growing ofeverything from the Parsnip and the Potato to the Chrysan-
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The Cushing-Payson Place, Belmont. themum and the Orchid. The land company which is nowin possession has cut off the farm-lands, but offers the re-maining parts for sale quite intact. These lands made a 250 SIX OLD AMERICAN COUNTRY-SEATS (1889 country-seat, at least as long ago as 1800, when the ownerwas a brother of Commodore Preble. One of the daughtersof the house married Mr. Nathaniel Amory, who became thenext owner, and he sold the property to Mr. R. D. Shepherd,and he to Mr. J. P. Gushing. Mr. Gushing spent many thou-sand dollars every year upon the place, and made it, thirty-six years ago, the most famous seat near Boston. Mr. S. E.Payson, the last owner, maintained and increased this fame. To-day the place possesses something of that pricelessand poetic charm which so distinguishes the Gore Place, andthe Lyman Place ; it is felt in the deer-park and among theOaks, but the spell is not so potent, nor does it pervade thewhole scene as at Waltham. To define the difference is alit

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