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)
, 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 ^T. 26] BOWOOD 151 Winthrop Sargent pronounced the second best in all Eng-land.…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
Internet Archive · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.