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)
before hot noon. July 6th: — It was a hot four miles to the park gates. Then a lovelymile through great Beech woods to the large, low-spreadinghouse. The distant view of the house was very striking, itsirregular terraces coming down into the rough pasture grassof the deer park. Deer were browsing… … K<^-^Ji^~^ ard in a remote corner of the manor buildings, and got leaveto see the gardens. There was a large Pinetum; but the ti-eeswere 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,…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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