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)
wing was built close to a littleknoll, which, with the trees upon it, helped to make the houseappear firmly and comfortably planted. The west wing alsohad its supporting trees. The smooth lawn before the housewas made with material dug from beside the brook, which wasthen induced, by the help of a… … t <t. u Z z .5 ;5 ^ i; .i .5 .,* J ..* 2 ? oi -i vi vS »; o6 ^T.29] ITS PLAN —REMARKABLE TREES 245 serpentine curves given to the grass-edged shore of the streamfurnish proof of this. At first, the approach-road entered the estate from thesoutheast and crossed the brook on a stone bridge of…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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