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 . ; and so on. Our present concern,however, is only with the appearance of coppice or sproutgrowth, and particularly with the part it plays in local andbroad scenery. The interior of a high coppice wood is seldom as beautifulas the interior of a seedling forest, not to speak of an opengrove. It lacks the pleasing variety of natural woods, com-posed as they are of numerous competing kinds of trees andunderwood. The crop-like or 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 . ; and so on. Our present concern,however, is only with the appearance of coppice or sproutgrowth, and particularly with the part it plays in local andbroad scenery. The interior of a high coppice wood is seldom as beautifulas the interior of a seedling forest, not to speak of an opengrove. It lacks the pleasing variety of natural woods, com-posed as they are of numerous competing kinds of trees andunderwood. The crop-like or artificial nature of sprout-growthis obvious at a glance, and cannot be concealed by an occa-sional though rare luxuriance of undergrowth or pretty playof light and shade. Along paths and roads the monotonouseffect of its crowded vertical lines is tedious in a high is only when some cause or condition introduces a littleunwonted variety either of form or kind of tree or under-growth, or when a distant vista catches the eye, that the pathsof the sprout-lands are not comparatively dull. Along theedges of old or broad roads, clearings, swamps, or ponds, and.
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