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)
removed, a secondarygrowth of seedling trees has subsequently mingled with theprimary trees, often to the injury of the latter, but as oftenwith pleasing effect. If, on the other hand, pasturing is re-sumed and continued after well-spaced trees have been devel-oped, the open groves which result… … ?: i ^T. 37] RESTORING BEAUTY TO RUINED WOODS 731 as well as inappropriate. Intricacy, variety, and picturesque-ness of detail of rock and vegetation, combined with numer-ous and varied openings, vistas, and broad prospects, mustserve as the sources of interest and beauty throughout thelarger part…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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