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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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ns. There was a large Pinetum; but the treeswere not very large as yet. I rambled about a delightful wood-land at the foot of the lake. The lakeside was very, very good,wild with all manner of shrubbery, Water-Lilies, and rushes ;and the dam of the lake is well treated. There is a prettyregion of wooded mounds, where no doubt earth from the lakeexcavation was dumped. All this was done very long ago.Finally, the ancient terrace gardens before the house are keptup in the old-fashioned manner, and are very quaint, withstone-edged parterres, much balustrading, walks on differentlevels, Yews, etc. Writing to his father the next day he says, Yesterday Isaw splendid Bowood — Lansdowne place — which Mr. Henry ,ET. 26) BOWOOD 151 Winthrop Sargent pronounced the second best in all Eng-land. That evening he took train for London, where he arrived with but eight pence in pocket. His letter of credit onBaring Brothers, being intended for the Continent, was of nouse in British provincial towns.
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English barns. \ CHAPTER VIII LANDSCAPE STUDY IN EUROPE. LONDON AND THE NORTH True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, layingits hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes fromoff its feet because it finds all ground holy, and testing itself by theway that it fits things. And it finds whereof to feed and whereby togrow in all things; for there is that to be seen in every street and laneof every city, that to be felt and found in every human heart andcountenance, that to be loved in every roadside weed and moss-grownwall, which in the hands of faithful men may convey emotions ofglory and sublimity continual and exalted. — Ruskin. He next took lodgings at Kew, in order to have convenientaccess to the gardens at all times of day. The weather wasextraordinarily hot for England. He writes to his father,Weather shockingly hot for some days past. 87 degreesin the coolest part of last night, according to the newspaper.I have not met a drop of rain

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