THE international flower show. 
Tlio groat Spring flower show, held at 
rhe Grand Central Palace, New York, 
March i7-2.*>, was the largest and most 
impressive exhibition of its class ever 
given in this city, and it is gratifying to 
no'." the public interest now, after many 
years of hard work and discouragement 
im the part of florists and private garden¬ 
ers. Judging by the thousands who at¬ 
tended this exhibition. New York has 
at last acquired the flower show habit. 
Coming at this season, there is a great 
opportunity for the display of Easter 
stock. Like last year, the newer French 
Hydrangeas were an important feature. 
These are greenhouse sorts, especially 
adapted to pot culture; they include won¬ 
derful pink shades, from pale flesh to 
deep carmine, an equal gradation of tint 
in blues, and pure white. The flower 
trusses are so large that each plant makes 
a veritable bouquet. The Azaleas includ¬ 
ed both the greenhouse sorts (varieties 
of Indica) and forced specimens of hardy 
varieties, flame, orange and golden yel¬ 
low. which bring to mind the painstaking 
work done for so many years by Belgian 
nurserymen, who have long supplied this 
class of stock. Rhododendrons were 
shown in great variety, both American 
and Asiatic. Forced shrubs, peaches, 
cherries, lilacs. Wistarias, golden bell, 
Spiraeas, etc., were shown in profusion, 
and the arrangement of these plants, not 
formally staged, but group'd like garden 
beds, was most artistic. 
Orchids were there in profusion from 
both commercial and private growers. 
Much curiosity was attracted by a moth 
orchid (Fhnhenopsis) from the Philip¬ 
pines growing an 1 blooming on a human 
skull. This is one of the epiphytal or¬ 
chids that ordinarily grow upon a tree 
<>r some such resting place, where their 
aerial roots find secure anchorage, and 
chance having deposited this young plant 
upon the skull of some victim of vio¬ 
lence or accident, it had wreathed the 
moldering remnant of mortality with its 
shaded leaves and spray of pale pinkish- 
mauve blossoms. It was rather grisly, 
but attracted quite as much attention 
as some really remarkable bi-generic or¬ 
chid hybrids. One of the notable or¬ 
chids was an unusual variety of Cattleya 
Schrodera; christened Queen of Belgium, 
which was sold for the ben 'fit. of the Bel¬ 
gian Red Cross funds. 
Roses and carnations each had theii’ 
special day. and liberal prizes called out 
keen competition. Two beautiful formal 
rose gardens occupied the center of the 
hall, beds being filled with forced Ram¬ 
blers and other rose plants. Francis 
Scott Key, a new American rose, was re¬ 
garded with universal favor; it is glow¬ 
ing rosy red, very large and double, and 
regarded as of great value for forcing. 
Mrs. Aaron Ward, yellow shaded with 
pinkish buff, is another new rose of ex¬ 
ceptional merit. 
Ferns and foliage plants were profusely 
displayed, the crested and moss-like forms 
of the Boston ferns being most interest¬ 
ing. There were, among the many flow¬ 
ering plants, some remarkable Begonias, 
including a new American introduction, 
Mrs. J. A. Peterson, showing the habit of 
Gloire do Lorraine, with blossoms of deep 
dazzling carmine. There was a great dis¬ 
play of Amaryllis, Cinerarias, Schizan- 
tlms in pots, and Dutch bulbs. E. T. R. 
Meeting of Vegetable Growers. 
The New York State Vegetable Grow¬ 
ers’ Association held a meeting in co¬ 
operation with the Erie County Farm 
Bureau and the South Shore Growers’ 
Association of Silver Creek, New York, 
at Angola, New York, Wednesday. March 
10, The meeting was well attended 
by many growers of farm produce from 
Chautauqua and Erie counties. The 
lunch was served at noon by the ladies 
of Evans Grange. Mr. Ilenr.v Greff rath 
of South Lima, N. Y., president of the 
State Association, presided at the meet¬ 
ing. Mr. Henry Greffratli gave a very 
interesting talk on the work of the State 
Association at which time he set forth 
the possibilities and the good work that 
it is trying to accomplish in organizing 
local associations throughout the State 
and have them affiliate with the State 
Association. Among the other activities 
which the State Association has under¬ 
taken this year is the matter of furnish¬ 
ing crop information and the probable 
selling price of vegetables. This informa¬ 
tion will be published in the form of bul¬ 
letin and will be mailed to all members 
ami affiliating local organizations. “There 
is no question as to the benefit the grow¬ 
ers will derive from reliable informa- 
1 ion of this kind,” said Mr. Greffratli. To 
Know what the other man is growing and 
the probable price that he will receive; 
also the. condition of the crops during 
the growing season and the acreage that 
is being grown in certain localities will 
be valuable information. All growers 
should avail themselves of the oppor¬ 
tunity and become members of the asso¬ 
ciation. Other speakers were W. B. 
Markham, manager of the Erie County 
*’ an . n Bureau; Alfred B. Wilkinson, ex¬ 
tension instructor of vegetable garden¬ 
ing, New York State College of Agricul¬ 
ture, Ithaca, New York; and S. J. Cook, 
manager of the South Shore Growers’ 
au( } Shippers’ Association of Silver 
' reek, New York. The State Associa- 
tion expect to hold other meetings over 
i he State and try to interest vegetable 
growers in the possibilities that are to 
he had from supporting a movement of 
Hus kind. s. . 1 . COOK. 
SHALL HE BURN THE PASTURE? 
A reader is renting a farm of 40 acres; 
it is all pasture land, located in Central 
New York. It has been pastured for sev¬ 
eral years, and is covered with dry grass, 
weeds and similar trash. Now he wants 
to know whether it would pay him to born 
this stuff off early in the Spring, or let 
it alone as it is. In which case will he 
obtain the better pasture for his stock? 
In case the proposition were yours; 
would you burn it over or let it alone? 
I would not burn off the refuse growth 
on the old pasture. I do not think we 
have learned the first principles of pasture 
maintenance. We do pretty nearly every¬ 
thing that we ought not to do. We graze 
down the growth so that very often noth¬ 
ing remains, and then expect a plant to 
be able to maintain lift' and produce a 
considerable amount of herbage. Any 
plant that can withstand close grazing 
or burning, there isn’t very much differ¬ 
ence, the lire does it a little quicker that 
is all, cannot produce much feed. The 
sun will do the same thing if it has a 
chance, that is. destroy organic matter 
and lay bare the soil and the crown and 
roots of plants. If this particular piece 
of land is weedy and cannot produce 
profitable pasturing for the cattle I 
should put in plows and plow it, culti¬ 
vate it. fertilize it well with some chem¬ 
icals and seed it to oats, but don’t burn 
it. II. E. COOK. 
N. Y. School of Agriculture. 
I hardly believe that I would burn this 
over. Somehow I am always reluctant 
about burning anything up. It almost al¬ 
ways means a loss of something, when it 
goes up in smoke. If this man only hires 
the place for one year, I suppose that he 
is not particularly interested as to 
whether the land is hurt or not, if. he 
can get the best results for the coming 
season. But I hardly think that he 
would be benefited. It is possible that in 
burning it the small amount of potash 
liberated would start the grass a little; 
but I am inclined to think that if the 
trash were left on the ground, that later 
in the season, when the ground gets dry, 
that the stuff would conserve moisture 
enough to more than make up for what 
the potash might help. I am of course 
taking it for granted that this is dry 
ground. If it were swampy land, and was 
covered with a rank growth of trash. T 
would burn it, for there would be plenty 
of nitrogen to fall back on. 
New York. j. grant morse. 
I never had such a case, but would 
burn it off because it would put the trash 
into fertilizer at once. It would not rot 
in time to be of use this year and would 
be in the way of the new growth and I 
do not think the fire would hurt the grass 
roots. I should also leave a portion of 
the field and watch results. 
New York. a. l. mines. 
I think that I should let it alone. The 
greatest need of our land is vegetable 
matter, which is hard to get. unless we are 
occasionally willing to let a crop go back 
on the ground. Besides, it is a benefit to 
the land merely as a cover, retaining the 
moisture, promoting tin' formation of bac¬ 
teria, all of which the scientific farmer 
can explain far better than I. And he 
will find that his cattle will eat a great 
deal of that dry grass, its food value may 
be low, but the stock eating it along with 
the green grass just because their appe¬ 
tite calls for it will receive a greater ben¬ 
efit from it than its. food value would in¬ 
dicate, just as-nr ther Winter the feed¬ 
ing value of succulent food is greater 
than its food value. Still if he is rent¬ 
ing,. and cares only for what he can get 
off it the first and one year, and the dry 
grass, etc., is thick enough to smother 
the new growth, which I doubt, it might, 
should we have a wet Summer, be bel¬ 
ter to burn it. He would get an earlier 
start of grass in the Spring, but it would 
also dry up and leave him without feed 
sooner in the late Summer should we have 
a dry season. m. n. w. 
Burning Rubbish. 
Not long ago I was interested in a rub¬ 
bish roast, described by T. E. Greiner. It 
calls attention to the vast amount of 
waste materials accumulated and to be 
disposed of during the Spring cleaning. 
There are brush, old rails, chips, sawdust, 
leaves, straw, bones, boots and shoes, old 
rags and paper, old mortar and many un¬ 
sightly things of which the premises must 
be relieved. A foundation is established 
of rails, followed with brush from the or¬ 
chard, and on this is placed yard takings, 
house sweepings, chips, wet sawdust, 
corncobs, wet leaves, grass and weeds, 
with a quantity'of limestone. Over this 
is put wet straw, sods, or anything of a 
similar nature, sweepings, mixed with wet 
soil spread pretty evenly over the mass. 
If this burns well the lire will last for 
several days, and the result will be a 
heap of dlist-like material consisting of 
ashes, charcoal and loam flavored with 
creosote. The material is used for tup- 
dressing for the garden, and has some fer¬ 
tilizer value. w. j. wii.i.sox. 
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