Excerpt from 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 Landscape study IN europe. Germany, holland, and homeward 187 The dull ride to Berlin, 187; the Berlin Botanical Gar den, and the city squares, 188 seeing the government park and forest work about Berlin under the guidance of Dr. Carl Bolle, 188 Muskau the most remarkable and lovable park on the Continent, 190, 191 Dresden the gallery, the Elbe, Pillnitz and its arboretum, 192 Leipsic parks, 193; Weimar and its park, 194 Eisenach - framings and fore grounds for the Wartburg, 194 Wartburg, 195 Wilhelms thal, a simple, quiet place, 196; Wilhelmshohe, huge of its kind, but a bad kind, 196; Arnhem a road of villas, 197 an open villa-garden, 198 the park of Sonsbeck, 198 the Hague and the beach of Scheveningen, 199; real Dutch landscape, 200 Repton's cottage, 201 the Pavonia ashore, 201 - 203.

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