Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Development of the Easterly Portion of Boston Common in Relation to the State House Approaches
A moderate camou?age of trees is often desired, even in times of peace, to hide an ugly public edifice and in some degree to obscure its avenues of approach. To divert the attention of passersby from a displeasing object in this way is justifiable though there is humor in the device which cannot be overlooked. This kind of obscuration, sometimes intentional, but more often the result of accident, has been used with success here and there over much of the country to relieve irritating effects of ugliness. Unfortunately, this primitive method of relief has been widely misapplied to buildings of unusual beauty from which no one would wish to turn his gaze. The extent to which pleasing structures have been hidden by this kind of obliteration is well understood by those who have attempted, in fact or in im agina tion, to part the branches of misplaced trees and to shift the position of badly located buildings in order to reveal. Noble edifices which have been lost to sight.
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