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 . ;et. 37] THE COPPICE TYPE 723 where ledges or other impediments form a defence againsttoo near neighbors, both masses and single specimens of sprouttrees naturally send out low branches and take on more in-teresting forms; even remarkably striking forms in manycases. On the other hand, the general appearance of theordinary sprout-growth, when it is seen from a distance inany broad view over the reservations, is as dull and tam
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 . ;et. 37] THE COPPICE TYPE 723 where ledges or other impediments form a defence againsttoo near neighbors, both masses and single specimens of sprouttrees naturally send out low branches and take on more in-teresting forms; even remarkably striking forms in manycases. On the other hand, the general appearance of theordinary sprout-growth, when it is seen from a distance inany broad view over the reservations, is as dull and tame asis its usual appearance close at hand. Its crowding swarmsof nearly uniform trees press closely down to the swamps,climb close up to the summit ledges and invade their slopesof debris, crowd the hollows and notches between rocks, andgenerally tend to wrap both the softer and the bolder featuresof the general landscape in the same monotonous blanket ofimpenetrable twigs and leafage. A kind of vegetation whichis so little beautiful in itself ought not to be permitted to takepossession of those parts of public reservations which wouldbe more interesting were the
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