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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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e weekly reports warrant. Charles was also allowed to look over many colored plansof work already executed; so that he obtained a clear idea ofMons. Andres methods and results. The fine annual Exhibition dHorticulture was in progress at the Champs Elysees ;and there Charles spentmany hours studying notonly the annuals, hardyflowers, and greenhouseplants, but the exhibitsof garden tools, iron andterra-cotta vases, rail-ings, fences of wire andwood, plant tubs andboxes, rustic bridges, ce-ment-work in imitationof wood, — even a rustic-work summerhouse witha thatched roof all ofcement. The plant col-lections were especiallyuseful to him, becausethe specimens were alllabelled; and he couldthus get the names ofmany plants which hehad seen on the Rivieraand in the French gar-dens. He found the Bois deBoulogne much morebeautiful than in winter;although he still ob-jected to much of theartificial water and rockwork. He could never5njoy a fall or cascade unnaturally placed, so that the water
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^*^.^ ^TT^ae. GoiJ^f^os. .^ / ^T. 26) BOIS DE BOULOGNE —VERSAILLES 123 * issues from the top of the highest mound in the neighbor-hood, unless, indeed, it was a completely architectural seriesof falls and cisterns, like that at St. Cloud. The thing whichmost pleased him at the Bois de Boulogne was the view overthe great open Longchamp, — as there is no large or even largish stretch of grassland in allthe Bois, this is very valuable. I examined the Moulius, thearrangements about the grand-stand, the pretty little lakesnear the Suresnes gate, and the partly open country of thispart of the Bois, — the prettiest part of all. The scrub woodof the major part, and the wide roads lined with rows of ugly-colored planes are too monotonous, particularly as many ofthe roads are straight. In all his excursions about Faris, at this season, he noticedthe careful way in which the railroad embankments weretreated, No raw banks. Grass, and Ivy, and thickets ofsmall trees, chiefly Maples and Locus

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