. Charles Eliot, architetto del paesaggio : un amante della natura e del suo genere che hanno addestrato se stesso per una nuova professione, praticato felicemente e attraverso di essa molto battuto buona /Charles William Eliot. i rapporti settimanali mandato. Charles si è anche permesso di guardare su molti plansof colorato lavori già eseguiti; in modo tale che egli ha ottenuto una chiara idea ofMons. Andres metodi e risultati. La bella mostra annuale dHorticulture era in corso al Champs Elysees ;e ci Charles spentmany ore di studio notonly l annuari, hardyflowers e greenhouseplants, ma il exhibitsof attrezzi da giardino, ferro andterra-cotta

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. 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. weekly reports warrant. Charles was also allowed to look over many colored plansof work already executed; so that he obtained a clear idea ofMons. Andres methods and results. The fine annual Exhibition dHorticulture was in progress at the Champs Elysees ;and there Charles spentmany hours studying notonly the annuals, hardyflowers, and greenhouseplants, but the exhibitsof garden tools, iron andterra-cotta vases, rail-ings, fences of wire andwood, plant tubs andboxes, rustic bridges, ce-ment-work in imitationof wood, — even a rustic-work summerhouse witha thatched roof all ofcement. The plant col-lections were especiallyuseful to him, becausethe specimens were alllabelled; and he couldthus get the names ofmany plants which hehad seen on the Rivieraand in the French gar-dens. He found the Bois deBoulogne much morebeautiful than in winter ;although he still ob-jected to much of theartificial water and rockwork. He could neverenjoy a fall or cascade unnaturally placed, so that the water. ^t. 26] BOIS DE BOULOGNE — VERSAILLES 123 issues from the top of the highest mound in the neighbor-hood, unless, indeed, it was a completely architectural seriesof falls and cisterns, like that at St. Cloud. The thing whichmost pleased him at the Bois de Boulogne was the view overthe great open Longchamp, — as there is no large or even largish stretch of grassland in allthe Bois, this is very valuable. I examined the Moulins, thearrangements about the grand-stand, the pretty little lakesnear the Suresnes gate, and the partly open country of thispart of the Bois, — the prettiest part of all. The scrub woodof the major part, and the wide roads lined with rows of ugly-colored planes are too monotonous, particularly as many ofthe roads are straight. In all his excursions about Paris, at this se

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