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 . ees must be kept away from veteran Oaksand Chestnuts, and so on. To restore beauty in such woodsas are now dull and crop-like, large areas must be graduallycleared of sprout-growth by selling the standing crop, orotherwise, the stumps must be subsequently killed, and seed-ling trees encouraged to take possession. To prepare for in-creasing the interest and beauty of scenery, work must bedirected to removing screens of foliage,
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 . ees must be kept away from veteran Oaksand Chestnuts, and so on. To restore beauty in such woodsas are now dull and crop-like, large areas must be graduallycleared of sprout-growth by selling the standing crop, orotherwise, the stumps must be subsequently killed, and seed-ling trees encouraged to take possession. To prepare for in-creasing the interest and beauty of scenery, work must bedirected to removing screens of foliage, to opening vistasthrough notches, to substituting low ground-cover for highwoods in many places, and other like operations which are, insome measure, illustrated by the accompanying diagrammaticsketches. The sooner all these kinds of work are enteredupon systematically, the finer will be the scenery of twentyand fifty years hence, and the more economically will thatscenery have been obtained. Eight days after the above report was presented, Charleswrote to the Commission making a definite proposition onbehalf of his firm for beginning forest work in the reserva-. ^] YOUNG SPROUT — RESCUE WORK 733 tions, and continuing it three years. If the following letteris from one point of view an asking for employment by theCommission, from another it is a public-spirited offer ofvaluable service. The Olmsted firm had at this time so muchwell-paid work on hand that, from the strictly pecuniary pointof view, the less work they did for the Metropolitan ParkCommission, the better. Charless interest in that work wasso keen that he would always give time to it altogether inexcess of the time which the Commission paid for. The firmnever took the view that their services were to be measuredcarefully by the amount of compensation they received ; theywanted the personal satisfaction and the professional creditof contributing to the success of a superb and beneficentpublic enterprise. Februar
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