flowers fall, then there is no possibility of getting the varieties 
mixed. Small plants brought in from the nursery will continue 
opening their flowers not much disturbed by the shock. 
The rot is the most serious disease to which the Iris is subject. 
There are many remedies but good drainage and sunshine are 
the best preventives. As soon as a plant shows that it is ailing 
by foliage that loses its color, I pull the earth away from the 
rhizomes, remove all soft parts and sprinkle plentifully with 
powdered sulphur or lime. Leaving the rhizomes exposed to the 
sun is the best cure of all. Of course if a plant is badly affected 
it must be dug, cleaned of all decay, rubbed with sulphur and 
after having been left in the sun for a day or two replanted in 
new soil. All this care is only taken for rare and expensive 
sorts ; any others that succumb are burned. I have not found 
that the rot spreads. A plant will grow lustily after a diseased 
portion of it has been removed. 
Ellen George Love. 
Garden Club of Euxton. 
Ninth Annual International Flower Show in New York 
Grand Central Palace. March 13th to 19th, 1922. 
The Flower Show has come and gone and leaves us breath- 
less with admiration. Each year it seems as if the high-water 
mark of perfection has been reached. The effect as you entered 
the doors was most dignified. A great feature was the enormous 
Bay trees of the Yonkers Nursery. On the left at the head of 
the staircase was Mrs. Payne Whitney's dream garden. An 
exquisitely dainty conception surrounded by a graceful low 
white fence. This was a great improvement in good taste and 
choice coloring over last season's exhibits of the same type. It 
was not over-crowded, but full enough of Clusiana Tulips, 
Rehmannia and choicest varieties of spring bulbs and shrubs 
in light coloring with two balanced clumps of orange on either 
side. It received second prize in its class, but was far better 
in color and design than Colonel Thompson's exhibit which won 
the first, but it did not have as many varieties of flowers. (Which 
was a blessing). 
The four principal exhibits covering one thousand square p 0UR T, ARrE 
feet each, were in the Rotunda. They could be nicely seen from Exhibits 
the balcony. A. N. Pierson of Cromwell, Connecticut, entered 
an entrancing Rose-garden. Bobbink and Atkins, a Rhododen- 
dron, Azalia and Crab-apple garden. F. R. Pierson of Tarry- 
town, put in a sloping lawn bordered by informal planting of 
trees and shrubs. And Julius Roehrs built a Rock-garden of 
hardy plants and shrubs. The Pierson exhibit was spoilt by 
an unnecessary little bulb-garden with an unattractive cement 
back, but his pool planting and the great white silver Birch- 
tree in first leaf was an inspiration. It seemed to many that 
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