page_title: Charles Frederick Eaton
section_title: Horticulture
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Frederick Eaton / Horticulture
caption_attribution_description: English: Title ["Solana," Frederick Forrest Peabody house, Eucalyptus Hill Road, Montecito, California. Entrance Drive] Contributor Names Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer Created / Published [1917 spring] Subject Headings - Houses--California--Montecito--1910-1920 - Gardens--California--Montecito--1910-1920 Format Headings Lantern slides--Hand-colored--1910-1920. Notes - Site History. House Architecture: Francis Townsend Underhill, built 1913-1914. Landscape: Charles Frederick Eaton, from 1906. Associated Name: Katherine Burke (Mrs. Frederick Forest) Peabody. Today: Garden subdivided. Monterey court. - Slide used with lecture "California Gardens." - On slide: Red-edge square sticker. - Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011. - Forms part of: Garden and historic house lecture series in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). - Published in Gardens for a Beautiful America / Sam Watters. New York: Acanthus Press, 2012. Plate 131. Medium 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in. Call Number/Physical Location LC-J717-X98- 31 [P&amp;P] Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Digital Id ppmsca 16105 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.16105 Library of Congress Control Number 2007685031 Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ppmsca-16105 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory No known restrictions on publication. Online Format image Description 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in. LCCN Permalink https://lccn.loc.gov/2007685031
context_page_description: Charles Frederick Eaton was a California Arts and Crafts artist and landscape architect who helped introduce new plant species to the state.
context_section_description: In Montecito, Eaton—a lifelong amateur gardener—developed into a landscape architect and horticulturalist, and the house he built for his family, Riso Rivo, featured a lotus pond with a floating Japanese teahouse that gained him national attention. He planted an enormous variety of both native and non-native trees at Riso Rivo, including live oak, camphor, cinnamon, avocado, Abyssinian banana, candlenut, and many species of citrus and palms. Eaton was an early champion of planting trees with strong vertical lines like palms and cypresses to complement the dominant horizontal lines of sky, water, and shore along the California coast. Gustav Stickley, one of the American Arts and Crafts movement's most celebrated designers, praised Eaton's landscape work for its revolt "against the formality, the severe training and repression of Nature which constitute the first principles of the French and Italian systems of landscape gardening".
  Eaton and the eminent Italian émigré horticulturalist Francesco Franceschi jointly founded the Southern California Acclimatizing Association in 1893 to introduce new species from around the world to California. It was initially headquartered at Riso Rivo, which accounts in part for the diversity of tree species planted there. Besides trees, Eaton and Franceschi grew many kinds of seeds at Riso Rivo in an attempt to determine  which were suitable for southern California's Mediterranean climate. Their partnership ended after two years when Franceschi moved the SCAA away from Riso Rivo, but the SCAA is recognized as the first nursery to "scientifically evaluate new plants for California's climatic conditions".
  Eaton also founded an annual Santa Barbara Floral Festival and promoted the planting of trees along city streets. He died in Santa Barbara on August 21, 1930.
caption: "Solana," Frederick Forrest Peabody house, Eucalyptus Hill Road, Montecito, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1917. Architect: Francis Townsend Underhill (1913-1914). Landscape: Charles Frederick Eaton, from 1906
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