Committee. — Mrs. Harold W. Nichols, Chairman; Mrs. Glendin- 
ning B. Groesbeck, Miss Ethel Wright, Mrs. Thomas G. Melish, 
Mrs. Carl H. Krippendorf. 
Margaret A. Rowe. 
The Garden Club of Cleveland 
THE CORRELATION OF THE ARTS 
The routine achievements of 191 6 sink into the commonplace 
beside the brilliant opportunity afforded the Garden Club of Cleve- 
land to be of distinct value in the Inaugural of our beautiful Museum 
of Art. 
However, two definite performances stand out in high light; we 
gave to the Garden Club of America our best — our President, and 
we chose an artist, yet a gardener, a sculptor and a builder of foun- 
tains, yet one of ourselves, to guide our fond adventure through 191 7. 
Who shall say whither her dreams shall lead us? Perchance 
even unto the terraces of that very Art Museum, already welcoming 
association, where we may spread our wares in such a Flower Market 
as might well be a valuable feature in the annual program of any 
Garden Club. 
But what a place to hold our June Flower Show, that lovely 
Italian Garden Court, in the new Museum; that cool and classic inner 
garden; those restful parterres, as purely formal as Vettius' own; those 
vistas in vaulted galleries through which the Boscoreale marbles 
gleam; those broken Roman columns; those statues from ancient 
Greece, half hid by shady fountains, beneath the green of trailing 
vines and spreading palms! There, to the sound of waters playing, 
all seemed waiting but to awaken within us an appreciation of why 
that inner garden was builded within the marble walls of an Art 
Museum. To make a perfect whole is needed but Nature's gloriously 
brilliant paint brush. 
With ruthless hands but willing hearts we robbed our beds and 
borders of their choicest blooms that side by side with those great 
Loan Exhibits of Painting and Sculpture we might display the lovely 
product of our own endeavors in a sister art. 
Throughout that Show the conviction grew within us that a Garden 
Club bound by its charter to encourage civic beauty and betterment 
was not best organized to develop one fine art alone. Every hour 
opportunities presented themselves to help the Museum of Art to 
educate our people to dwell with beauty. 
For this, more than to plant flowers to beautify our own lives, did 
we seem to be a Garden Club. 
It seemed wise to appoint a Committee to cement the existing 
