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)
n here the wide prospectis broken into scenes and framed by the solid piers and archesof the pavilion itself, and by the trunks and branches of greattrees, chiefly Locusts, standing on the brink of the irregulargrassy slope which falls steeply to a narrow wood on the bluffat the rivers edge. To… … ^T. 29] THE KAATSKILLS FROM MONTGOMERY PLACE 255 lawn waving in undulations of soft verdure, varied with finegroups, and margined with rich belts of foliage. Its base iswashed by the river, which is here a broad sheet of water,lying like a long lake beneath the eye. . . . On the oppositeshores,…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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