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 (1902)
of 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… … TT^ile.. GoiJ^i^oS. iET. 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…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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