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 . CXnANAT/ON t totun Old Castle. 3 CasllCi 4 Theatre. 9 Uppf r Lou/cr WorJimana Uillat/e, 6 Hotel and. WalerCurc. 14 Cnglish House. 7 mm. IS Kitchen ffarden. 16 ^T. 31] ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE ART 363 irrigation ; and, where this is the case, a pleasure ground be-comes an oasis to be sharply marked off from, and contrastedwith, the surrou
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 . CXnANAT/ON t totun Old Castle. 3 CasllCi 4 Theatre. 9 Uppf r Lou/cr WorJimana Uillat/e, 6 Hotel and. WalerCurc. 14 Cnglish House. 7 mm. IS Kitchen ffarden. 16 ^T. 31] ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE ART 363 irrigation ; and, where this is the case, a pleasure ground be-comes an oasis to be sharply marked off from, and contrastedwith, the surrounding waste. Spanish models will help ushere. But the other half of our continent presents verdurousscenery of many differing types, from the rocky Pine woodsof Quebec to the Palmetto thickets of Florida. Throughoutthis varied region there is a woeful tendency to reduce to oneconventional form all such too meagre portions of the originallandscape as are preserved in private country-seats and pub-lic parks. What shall check this tiresome repetition of onelandscape theme ? When shall a rich man or a club of citi-zens, an enlightened town or a pleasure resort, do for somequiet lake-shore of Xew England, some long valley of theAlleghanies, some forest-bordered prairie of Louisiana, whatPiickler did for his valley of the Neisse ? He preservedeverything that was distinctive. He destroyed neither hisfarm nor his
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