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)
d prevailing industries. For him, there-fore, landscape architecture included the designing of a farm-stead, plantation, or ranch, of a country-seat or seaside-seat,of a suburban colony, of the grounds about a railway stationor a factory, of a city, or of city squares, playgrounds, parks,and… … CHAPTER XVI SELECTED! LETTERS TO PRIVATE OWNERS, TRUSTEES,OR CORPORATIONS To range the shrubs and small trees so that they may mutually setoff the beauties and conceal the blemishes of each — to aim at noeffects which depend on nicety for success and which the soil, theexposure, or the season may…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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