The President announced : ' ' Yon have received the report 
of the Nominating Committee. May I call to your attention 
Article VI, Section 3 of the Constitution, which reads as follows : 
"Upon vote of the duly appointed representatives of any five Member 
Clubs a second ticket of candidates may be presented for election at the 
Annual Meeting." 
Is there a second ticket ? 
As there were no nominations presented from the floor by 
any five Member Clubs, the President appointed two Tellers and 
a vote was made by ballot and the candidates duly elected. 
Mrs. Pratt urged the Presidents of the Member Clubs to give 
prompt attention to the changes of addresses and revisions of 
membership lists in order to insure accuracy in the Central 
Office, stating that it is the wish of the officers that every member 
may know what is being done, and the Bulletin furnishes this 
avenue of information. 
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was unanimously 
Voted: That the meeting adjourn. 
Cleveland Gardens 
Water brooks and blossoms blue ! The bold accent of conifers 
and laurels ! A fine regard for the natural beauty of the land, 
and care to fit the garden to the site, rather than vice-versa — - 
these are the impressions which supersede all others in my 
recollection of the Cleveland gardens. 
If "blessed are they that sow beside the waters" be truth as 
well as poetry, then the gardeners of the Cleveland and Shaker 
Lakes Clubs are most fortunate. Not a garden but has its pool 
or bird bath, fountain or water beds, or running brook. Some- 
times this serves as the central feature of the design, or again, 
one may round a planting of shrubbery to come upon a shallow 
pool in which a chubby bronze boy dabbles his toes and laughs 
at your start of surprise. But always, wherever one turns, there 
is sight or sound of water, giving that impression of fertility 
removed from all menace of drought, which is so large a part of 
a garden's charm. Quite as distinctive as this frequent use of 
water, is the repeated note of blue — Delphinium, Lupine, 
Anchusa, Campanula, Echinops, Veronica, Centaur ea and 
Lobelia — giving to the sprightly pink and white and gold of 
June borders, a hint of mystery, like the cello's throb breaking 
in upon the allegro of the lighter strings. 
One began to be aware of this on the very first day when the 
Presidents gathered for their meeting in Mrs. Brigg's garden. 
Here was water, in a broad pool, lying close beside the cloistered 
porch, so that one sat in pleasant shade and watched the reflec- 
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