. 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 /Charles William Eliot. Dunham himself superintended all the road-making, grad-ing, and planting required by the design, and has ever sincetaken assiduous care of the plantations, rejecting the shrubswhich did not accommodate themselves to the soil and theclimate, replacing feeble plants with strong ones, and payingattention to the preservation of the original curves and sur-faces of the avenues, paths, and grassed areas. In Ma
. 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 /Charles William Eliot. Dunham himself superintended all the road-making, grad-ing, and planting required by the design, and has ever sincetaken assiduous care of the plantations, rejecting the shrubswhich did not accommodate themselves to the soil and theclimate, replacing feeble plants with strong ones, and payingattention to the preservation of the original curves and sur-faces of the avenues, paths, and grassed areas. In March,1890, sixty-two kinds of trees and shrubs were set out on theestate ; and in the following autumn Charles provided anotherlist of 725 plants, this list embracing fifty-two kinds, many of 284 A BEAUTIFUL RESULT [1889 which were, however, included in the preceding sixty-twokinds. The following spring another list of 520 plants wasused by Dr. Dunham. The results obtained in about ten years are certainly sur-prising, and very pleasing. In driving down the avenue thereis no sense of danger, — no apprehension of falling off on thedown side. The accompanying cut shows the descent at the. turn below the house. The surface of the lawn is singularlypleasing, as it descends towards a natural grove of trees on asteep bank at its southern extremity; and from the house andits vicinity one does not perceive at all the boundaries of theplace. The accompanying illustrations represent but imper-fectly the results achieved. The first one exhibits the en-trance and the ascending avenue with planted slopes on eitherhand; the second depicts the house and stable when thefirst plantings were made ; the third the present aspect look-ing towards the house. The fourth illustration shows howplantations not far from the house lead the eye across thebroad sunken highway to the woods and thickets on theneighbors lands. Yet it is only 160 feet from the house tothe highway. All the surfaces and plantings
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