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 . of formality as the too common practice ofplanting trees in rows beside curving driveways. In devisingnecessary plantations he will give preference to native plants,without avoiding exotics of kinds which blend easily. Thus,where a Banana would be out of place, the equally foreignBarberry, Privet, or Buckthorn may be admissible and by the same principle, he will confine flower gar-dening to the secluded garde
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 . of formality as the too common practice ofplanting trees in rows beside curving driveways. In devisingnecessary plantations he will give preference to native plants,without avoiding exotics of kinds which blend easily. Thus,where a Banana would be out of place, the equally foreignBarberry, Privet, or Buckthorn may be admissible and by the same principle, he will confine flower gar-dening to the secluded garden, for which space may perhapsbe found in some corner of the park. If men can be found who will thus cooperate with parkcommissioners to the end that the lands and landscapes whichthe latter hold in trust shall be cared for and made availablein strict accordance with that trust, excellent results can behoped for in American parks. As before remarked, menwho are capable of such work may certainly be trusted toconstruct and manage town spaces — squares, playgrounds,and the like — with due regard to their special purposes andto the satisfaction of all CHAPTER XXIV LETTERS OF 1894 ON METROPOLITAN PARK WORK The problem of a park ... is mainly the reconciliation of adequatebeauty of nature in scenery with adequate means in artificial construc-tions of protecting the conditions of such beauty, and holding it avail-able to the use, in a convenient and orderly way, of those needing it.— F. L. Olmsted. At the close of each year between 1893 and 1896 inchisive,Charles wrote a report to the Metropolitan Park Commissionsummarizing the work done for the Commission by the land-scape architects ; but in each one of these years he wrote alsoa series of letters to the Commission giving current advice,or answering questions raised in meetings of the Board. Theannual reports generally relate to things accomplished, theletters to things under consideration or needing to be
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