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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 /Charles William Eliot
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape gardening
Publisher: Boston :Houghton
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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e-yards in great variety: some decorated with piles of slag,white quartz, or blue glass (probably called rockeries);and some with statuettes or rustic seats made of iron; thebest those in which the path to the door is carried conven-iently direct, and simple green grass or Ivy covers most ofthe remaining ground. Ivy as a green cover is particularlyuseful in the shade of trees or shrubs. Here he notes thegood effect of plantations of low-growing shrubs set underthe windows of the house itself. We shall see hereafter howhe applied these observations at home in the suburbs ofBoston. On the 8th of December he writes thus in his journal of aday spent at Hampstead: — A gloriously bright, cold day, — bright for London. Offfor Hampstead by ten oclock, by means of a bus fromTottenham Court Road. After some twenty minutes rideover stone pavements a third horse was hitched on, and theascent of the northern heights began. Open fields ap-peared between the buildings along the highway ; but the
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MT. 26) HAMPSTEAD — HIGHGATE 55 road itself is now built up all the way to the Heath, —apicturesque road it is, as it winds and struggles up thesteep hill. Numerous narrow footpaths and lanes appear,sometimes lined with pollarded trees. Up on the heightis an indescribable mixture of tree-planted, private placesenclosed by high walls, clusters of tile-roofed cottages, littleinns now and then with their hanging signs, a big church,a little old church, and a chapel; and worked in and amongand around these the bays, straits, and reaches of the wild,untamed Heath, with its Furze, Gorse, and Bracken, andits innumerable trodden cross-paths leading in every direc-tion. And then the glorious outlook, — southward over allLondon; westward to Harrow-on-the-Hill ; northward overa smiling farming land as green as green can be; and east-ward to the companion height of Highgate with its con-spicuous church, and its tree-embowered gentlemens places.After a delightful tramp all through and about

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