. 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. ,going with the superintendent of Epping Forest through thatbeautiful reservation of about 6000 acres, which is onlysixteen miles from London. Here he saw the work of thin-ning coppice, the product being made up in three gradesfrom poles to fagots. The Forest has immense masses ofcoppice and thicket where the trees and shrubs kill eachother, — the result being dangerous quantities of materialsfor fires. Yet the superintendent
. 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. ,going with the superintendent of Epping Forest through thatbeautiful reservation of about 6000 acres, which is onlysixteen miles from London. Here he saw the work of thin-ning coppice, the product being made up in three gradesfrom poles to fagots. The Forest has immense masses ofcoppice and thicket where the trees and shrubs kill eachother, — the result being dangerous quantities of materialsfor fires. Yet the superintendents intelligent efforts to clearand thin the woods encounter incessant popular opposition,and it is a useful part of his function to make explanatoryexcursions with committees. There is no large variety ofvegetation in the Forest; and no large variety is necessary toproduce the finest landscape effects. Gorse, Heather, Broom,Thorns, Hornbeam, Crabs, Birch, Beech, and Oak are quitesufficient. On the 22d of December he had an interesting day in thecountry, of which his journal gives the following account: — Gloomy, as usual; but being thoroughly sick of the town I. JJ t
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