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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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better, when thegrass was green and the plantings showed the designed colorsof their foliage, than in their bare winter state. He wasmuch interested also in the use made of these squares by thechildren and women of their neighborhood. One Sundayafternoon spent in the Pare Monceaux was especially delight-ful to him, because of the countless children and gaylydressed bonnes, with a band of music between 4 and 5 oclock,the whole driveway occupied by a crowd seated in chairs.The crowd was very quiet and well dressed, — not a sign ofa mucker, — as different as possible from the scene at the £T. 26) PARIS SQUARES—ANDR)&S METHODS 121 Boston Common Sunday band concerts. He noted, also,the very green grass, good even in the shade; gracefullymodelled surfaces; open groves; Ivied tree-trunks; andthicket plantings, edged with Euonymus, Veronica, andEuonymus radicans, or even with formal rows of Geraniums.All the paths were edged by -^rDcacac:^— udv^O^.^alvrU^ ^^^\>o>»^^yA>.
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Mons. Andre, the eminent landscape architect, gave himmuch valuable information, directing him to old and inter-esting places in the neighborhood of Paris which it would beworth while for him to see, and explaining to him his ownbusiness arrangements, which seemed to Charles admirable. Of late years, Mons. Andre has undertaken the designingof country-houses, as well as of grounds ;and he has alwayskept to himself, as far as possible, the designing of all acces-sory buildings, walls, bridges, terraces, etc., — things whichMr. Olmsted gives up to the architect. . . . His landscape-gardening work is sometimes executed by contract for a lumpsum, there being men in Paris who will undertake work in alldepartments in this way ; oftener by contract at fixed pricesfor the different kinds of work; and oftener still by daylabor. In the latter case, the men at work are overseen by aforeman employed by Andr^, whose services are afterwardscharged as an item in his bill. These foremen make reports

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