tensive gardens, has been felt by us all. In asking Mrs. Sterner to 
arrange this exhibition for us we feel that it will be of real value to 
our members, who otherwise would have had to delve in the studios 
scattered all over the country to search out choice new fountains or 
other subjects. 
There have been in the last few years some rarely beautiful and 
appropriate garden figures created by our sculptors but naturally 
we hesitate to duplicate in our own garden the very one that we so 
admire in the garden of our friend, with the result that we have 
to abandon the idea of owning an original American work and use 
instead, the charming old EngHsh leaden statue so suitable to the 
formal gardens of the Georgian period. 
The charm of garden statuary depends largely on its placing and 
background. It cannot have decorative success no matter how much 
intrinsic merit, unless its surroundings are in keeping and its base 
carefully chosen. 
There will also be some paintings of gardens at the same exhibition. 
There is nothing we amateur gardeners are more critical of than 
pictures of flower gardens. We hope that Mrs. Sterner will be able 
to convince us that we have in America painters who can catch that 
fleeting spirituahty of a growing garden which is so sadly lacking in 
most of the pleasant but commonplace garden pictures of our exhibi- 
tions. 
A. G. H. 
The Tree 
By Joyce Kilmer 
I think I shall never see 
A poem as lovely as a tree. 
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest 
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast. 
A tree that looks at God all day 
And lifts its leafy arms to pray; 
A tree that may in summer wear 
A nest of robins in her hair; 
Upon whose bosom snow has lain; 
Who intimately lives with rain. 
Poems are made by fools like me, 
But only God can make a tree. 
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