. 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. n that there are now several park commissionersin this country who do not consider it their first duty todestroy the beauty which nature provides. Real landscapeart is nothing if it is not broad, simple, and conservative ofnatural beauty. It is elaborate and gardenesque only inspecial circumstances. Its old name of landscape garden-ing must be discarded at once, if the definition in the newCentury Dictio
. 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. n that there are now several park commissionersin this country who do not consider it their first duty todestroy the beauty which nature provides. Real landscapeart is nothing if it is not broad, simple, and conservative ofnatural beauty. It is elaborate and gardenesque only inspecial circumstances. Its old name of landscape garden-ing must be discarded at once, if the definition in the newCentury Dictionary is correct. Landscape art does not con-sist in arranging trees, shrubs, borders, lawns, ponds, bridges,fountains, paths, or any other things so as to produce apicturesque effect. It is rather the fitting of landscape tohuman use and enjoyment in such manner as may be mostappropriate and most beautiful in any given spot or this is generally understood by the public and prac-tised by the profession, parks and country-seats will be sodesigned as to be not only well arranged and beautiful, butbeautiful in some distinctive and characteristic way, as isWhite Park at A very low Stone Bridge. CHAPTER XIII TWO SCENERY PROBLEMS — MARRIAGE With regard to improving, that alone I should call art in a goodsense which was employed in collecting from the infinite varieties ofaccident (which is commonly called nature in opposition to what iscalled art) such circumstances as may happily he introduced, accord-ing to the real capabilities of the place to be improved. This is whatpainters have done in their art. He therefore, in my mind, will showmost art in improving, who leaves (a very material point) or who cre-ates the greatest variety of pictures, of such different compositions aspainters would least like to alter. — Price. To illustrate Charless way of dealing with some of thepractical problems which owners of New England country-places may bring to a landscape
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