THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



eastern Massachusetts. A greater variety 

 of beautiful landscape is presented than any 

 ordinary person would have thought existed 

 within driving disteince of Beacon Hill. 



The third point in which Eliot showed 

 his professional skill lay in securing the 

 purchase and reservation of these areas 

 with a practical system for their manage- 

 ment in perpetuity. He was able to present 

 to the community, and to various influential 

 sections of it, his projects with vmusual 

 force and persuasiveness. This sort of 

 talent is sometimes lacking among land- 

 scape architects, but it is a professional 

 equipment of the greatest value. 



Number Eight. Keney Park, Hartford, 

 has many of the characteristics of Franklin 

 Park. It is a large rural park designed in 

 the extreme of the natural style. The 

 original layout was at the hands of the late 

 Charles Eliot. Subsequent developments 

 have been designed by Olmsted Brothers, 

 particularly by Mr. John C. Olmsted, while 

 much of the present charm and interest of 

 the park is due to the sympathetic con- 

 structive work of the superintendent, Mr. 

 George A. Parker. While this park is, 

 therefore, not to be rated as the product 



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