AMERICAN MASTERPIECES 



Number Seven. The Metropolitan 

 Park Reservation o£ Boston is one of the 

 most complete and satisfactory to be found 

 in America. In fact, it compares favorably 

 with work of the same sort in the best cities 

 of Europe, The project is largely due to 

 orie man, the late Charles Eliot. While 

 not very much has been done in the de- 

 velopment of this region, aside from making 

 some roads and parkways, the main pur- 

 pose was accomplished when the tracts 

 were selected, surveyed and reserved. To 

 a considerable extent, therefore, Eliot saw 

 his project completed. Perhaps he saw 

 it as near its actual completion as the land- 

 scape architect usually sees his work. 



The value of the Metropolitan Park 

 Reservation of Boston, considered as a 

 work of landscape architecture, consists 

 first in its realization of the landscape 

 needs of a great community. These needs 

 are served for the present and safeguarded 

 for the future in a large and practical way. 



The second merit of this reservation 

 system is shown in the excellent judgment 

 with which the various tracts were selected. 

 The different areas represent all the differ- 

 ent kinds of natural scenery available in 



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