On the other side of the house a broad lawn with a thick 
background of trees served as a theatre where the guests, seated 
on the terrace, watched interpretive dancing of the Russian 
school, under the play of searchlights. A perfect night, clear 
and cool, added its beauty to the ending of a wonderful day. 
A. H. and H. M. S. 
(Owing to unavoidable delay the descriptions of the gardens visited the 
second day in Cleveland cannot be printed until the September issue of 
the Bulletin.) 
Editor. 
A Tree Lecture 
On the evening of the second day fell the lecture on Trees by 
Dean Henry Turner Bailey, the Director of the Cleveland Art 
Museum. Led by leisurely wanderings through spacious and 
beautiful halls to where sculpture, paintings, tapestries, armor, 
were in lovely and ordered profusion, while Mr. Rogers' organ 
music added an enchantment all its own, we came at a rather late 
hour to the lecture hall. Here, on the platform to the right, 
Dean Bailey had a number of large sheets of blank paper 
super-imposed upon a well-lit board. On these he began his rapid 
and brilliant sketching, talking meanwhile. If the other mem- 
bers of this organization expected as did this writer, that the 
talk would confine itself to "Trees in Art" they, like herself, 
were utterly and happily mistaken. 
Dean Bailey began with a discussion, illustrated by the most 
nimble, expert and temperamental drawing, of the form and 
growth of the tree-seed. Showing the seeds of a Pine and an 
Apple tree,, he set forth the total difference in the ultimate 
product from two tiny objects not unlike each other. The fruit 
of the two types of trees appeared upon the paper and Dean 
Bailey reminded us in a way to lift our eyes unto the hills, that 
no man has known or can know what is that germ of life with- 
out which neither tree nor fruit could come into being. 
There followed -a long and thrilling passage on the form of 
trees, the habits of trees, the character of trees, on tree groups 
— all these woven together by a fine simile of the human family 
and lighted by the masterly and rapid crayon sketches of the 
speaker. Now and again was a moral pointed or the imagination 
kindled by an apt line from Whitman, Emerson or Ruskin — a 
humorous touch given by a reference to human frailties, the 
possession even of those who garden ! The persistence of type 
in trees, the responsibility of carrying on that type, the group- 
responsibility as shown by a remarkable colony of "Willows on 
Cape Cod where the buffeting by great sea-winds is borne by 
those outside, sheltering the inner members of the group to their 
perfect development — all these things and many more were 
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