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 . or whether it springs from the stumpsof felled trees, its appearance is equally dreary and monoto-nous. If the fire-killed trees are not entirely removed (as theynow have been throughout most of the reservations), or if theyare allowed to slowly fall to pieces amid the tangle of newsprouts, the woodland scenery becomes still more dismal andsqualid. It would, indeed, be hard to exaggerate the ruinedappearance of such scenes ; a
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 . or whether it springs from the stumpsof felled trees, its appearance is equally dreary and monoto-nous. If the fire-killed trees are not entirely removed (as theynow have been throughout most of the reservations), or if theyare allowed to slowly fall to pieces amid the tangle of newsprouts, the woodland scenery becomes still more dismal andsqualid. It would, indeed, be hard to exaggerate the ruinedappearance of such scenes ; and yet they were met with onevery hand when the reservations were first acquired. As in the case of old sprout, the presence of young sproutis particularly unwelcome when it screens from sight any finerocks or any richly verdurous swamp openings, as well as whenit blots out possible vistas. It sometimes springs from thestumps of such deciduous trees as once were mixed with con-ifers on rocky hillsides, and in such cases it ought to be sup-pressed at once for the encouragement of seedling Pines, orother trees known to be long-lived and appropriate in such 7^ S w-^.
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