buildings, which his son has generously offered to cancel if a similar 
sum can be raised to endow departments of music and landscape 
architecture. $220,000 has already been contributed, but $155,000 
more must be added before May ist in order to take advantage of 
Mr. Morgan's offer. 
Would not the members of the Garden Club of America like to 
show their appreciation of this new departure by sending contribu- 
tions from each of the Associated Clubs? It might be suggested that 
their money should be appHed to the new building for housing women 
which is to be erected on the grounds. The treasurer is Mr. William 
A. Boring, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York. 
The fellowships will include a stay of three years in Italy and inten- 
sive study of the wonderful examples of landscape design in various 
parts of the country. With their analytic study of these masterpieces, 
the Fellows will carry on constructive essays in design. They will 
work not in classes, but each on his or her own responsibility to make 
the very utmost of the extraordinary opportunity, enabling them to 
concentrate on the single aim of quality in their chosen art. They 
will work in collaboration with architects, painters and sculptors, 
learning the hmitations and possibiHties of the kindred arts. 
During the third year, as the Fellows in Architecture are sent to 
Greece, the Fellows in Landscape Architecture will be sent to France 
and to England to see how the same principles have been applied to 
other forms of landscape design, differing from the stately formal 
Italian villas, because interpreting human needs based on a different 
economic and social life under a more northern sky. 
The benefit these Fellows receive will be returned to us tenfold 
by raising the standards of landscape architecture in this country 
and spreading the desire for beautiful gardens. Does not each of us 
wish to give some practical expression of enthusiasm for this move- 
ment? Rose Standish Nichols. ■ 
The Society of Little Gardens 
On reading the very interesting minutes of the Fifth Annual meeting 
of the Garden Club of America, one notes the dominant desire to 
enlarge and multiply the beautiful spots of the earth and to bring flowers 
more readily within the reach of all. 
Add to this the objects of the Garden Club as read at the meeting: 
"The objects of this association shall be to stimulate the knowledge and 
love of gardening among amateurs; to share the advantages of associa- 
tion, through conference and correspondence in this country and abroad, 
to aid in the protection of native plants and birds and to encourage civic 
planting." 
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