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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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y bears witness : — July, 1883. The city and people are very interesting tome. The system of streets is rectangular, but also radial.Most streets and all avenues are planted with trees — chieflyMaples — and there is considerable variety in the plans ofplanting. Very few dwellings are built in blocks. There 186 LANDSCAPE STUDY IN EUROPE (1886 are miles upon miles of cheap but decent houses, each withinits little plot of land. A few streets contain more pretentioushouses ; but these are also of an appalling architectural same-ness — French-roofed, square, brick, stone-trimmed dwellings,unhomelike and stuck-up. No Greek-portico houses, andas yet no Queen Anne. It is a commonplace and very com-munistic-looking city, but, I suppose, a fair type of manycities in the West. The dull flatness of the country in which the city lies, theoppressive lack of interest and variety in the city itself, andthe sameness of the people — here are three phenomena to beset down as closely connected.
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CHAPTER X LANDSCAPE STUDY IN EUROPE. GERMANY, HOLLAND,AND HOMEWARD I believe it is no wrong observation, that persons of genius andthose who are most capable of art are always most fond of nature:on the contrary, people of the common level of understanding are prin-cipally delighted with little niceties and fantastical operations of art,and constantly think that finest which is the least natural. — TheGuardian, 1713. Charles mailed no part of his journal in Russia, fearingthat it might be taken for newspaper correspondence and sobe detained. From St. Petersburg he rode straight to Berlin,the journey requiring about thirty-four hours. The first daysride was as dull as possible. Interminable small wood, wet heath ormossland, with occasional open spaces, partly in grass andpartly in grain. There were small villages of primitive ap-pearance now and then; but they were scarce. At dusk Inoticed small camp-fires at short distances along the line, asentinel at every bridge and culvert, and

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