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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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, terrace-wall, anda balustrade near the brink of rough cliffs. I could not make up my mind about the wall and balus-trade. They serve as dividing line between the dress groundbefore the house and the wildness of the cliffs; and probablythey make a good foreground for the grand view when onelooks from the house; but seen from other parts of the shoreone wishes them away. They seem wholly out of place; forthey are not near enough to the house to seem a part of thebuilding. A row of small palms just within the balustradeis also of very questionable value. Just below this wall, ona jutting point of cliff, is an ordinary rockery, with the plantslabelled in little compartments, — this in the foreground of asea-view which is only bounded by the Esterelles seen overHe Sainte-Marguerite ! Too bad! At the gate is a charm-ing lodge, built of stone, low, and of simplest form, withan outside room screened by lattice with creepers. Theflowers — chiefly Cinerarias of magnificent colors and huge
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vET. 26) ANTIBES 89 Cyclamens — are confined to the immediate neighborhood ofthis lodge, and to beds of dress ground before the house. In another private place, which he examined, he speaks of a region where the original wild shrubbery has been madeto make room for a well-chosen variety of plants, which havebeen naturalized in its midst. The word naturalizeddefines what was, for him, good taste in the artificial treat-ment of rough and essentially wild regions. Again, concern-ing the same place, he says: — On a jutting point of hill is a very pleasant, well-contrived,and pretty sort of arbor, having stone piers and a roof ofcanes, its irregular ground-plan conformed to the shape ofthe ledge, the views from within it very wide and wellframed. In a hollow, where it is not seen till the hollow isentered, is a small, well-built rockery, — the stones large,with no petty compartments. Some largish trees shut in thewhole hollow; but down a gulch leading to the water is acontrolling vie

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