New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-06-02
SHOWS AND CONGRESSES.

SHOWS AND CONGRESSES.
SHOW OF FLOWERS AND VEGErABLEs-INTERNA-
TIONAL CoNGREssEs-CoINAGE OF THE WORLD.
[FRoM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUSR.l
VIENNA MAY 16.-The FIRST of the many special and
temporary exhibitions that TO take place in
necton with the Worlds Fair is the show of flowers
and of early vegetables, and Winter-kept fruits,
which closes to-day. 1t is held IN large tent at the
further end of the Exhibition grounds, and is only
attainable by q long tramp over muddy paths, past
the Egyptian viceroys palace and the comical little
wooden houses that the Japanese have just finished
and through strip of woods that shelter an Indian
wigwam where thirsty Americans are served by the
blacklist of coored walters in the whtest of Jackets
with Cocktails" "juleps," )" smashes," and
"straights" and other entcing American beverages.
Once out of the woods you mount hill and come
straight upon the flower show. Many who start for
the show never find their way out of the woods how
ever and go no further than the wigwam.
where they contentedy linger until the
warning bell gives notice that it is o'clock, and
the gates will be shut. These are of course
Americans The Europeans of all nations look upon
this wigwam and the ferOcious figures daubed upon
it in red and yellow paint, with an air of timid
curiosity. They give it a wide berth. gazing upon
it from safe distance in the outskirts of the woods.
They no doubt believe the amiable darkeys to be
North American savages tanned for the occasion, who
might relapse into their old habits and make rush
for their scaps if they ventured too In front
of the tent in which the flowers and fruits are to be
seem is a piece of ground where mud and gravel,
trees plants and sod trying to make themselves
into a garden, with the help of few lazy Austrian
workmen Like almost everything else about the
Exhibition, this garden is remarkable for Its
promises and possibilities and not for its perform
ance. 1t will no doubt be very pretty by and bye.
but just it is a for the feet of the unwary,
of much less endurabe kind than those that lie in
wait in the wigwam at the foot of the hill.
AUSTRIAN HORTICULTURE
But the flower show, in spite of the difficulties one
must surmount to reach it, is worth going TO see. 1t
is a great relief TO the over-tried temper TO find
something that is ready to be The show fills
square tent of moderate size with long, crescent
shaped wings stretching out on either side These
wings look like big arms and they reach forward
toward the advancing visitor in a suggestive way,
as if they were about to take him in'-suggestive
/ say because the visitor is takenn in so many ways
about the Exhibition grounds that he grows susp-
cious The tent is exceptionally honest and ham,
less however, and within its striped canvas walls
there is no trap to catch the visitor. Nobody has
concession from the Direction to swindle
people here. The flowers are nearly all
of dollhouse growth, and come from
the establishments Of the Vienna florists, with the
exception Of small contribution from Munich aud
another from Dresden. The exhibition has there
fore almost no international character, and besides
it presents little interest to the connoisseur who
seeks for rarties. There are many beautiful specl-
MEMS however, of well Unknown conservatory plants
The azalias are particularly fine, and they are
grouped so as to make the most brilliant effects of
color. l never saw such large flowers such dense
masses of bloom such great variety of beautiful
tints The roses are noteworthy for their size rather
than for their beauty. The aim of the Vienna gar
dener appears TO be to produce as big a posi-
BILE and to do this all comeliness of shape in the
bush is sacrificed 1t is trained to grow like straight
stick and only a small bunch of leaves is allowed at
the top Theseirose trees as they should be called
rather than bushes often ten feet high and they
hear but three or four flowers each. Standing alone
there is little beauty in them but massed in dense
hedges so that only the eafy top and the great roses
are seem the effect is striking In the tent they are
arranged along the walls the shortest in front and
the taller rows behind, graduated SO as to make an
eoual'slope along their tops. Nowhere Is natural
shaped bush to be SEEM and while the great size and
fine color of the flowers excite admiration one soon
tires Of them and wonders the false taste that insists
upon 50 defomng the bushes for the sake of getting
roses of unusual magnitude. Next to the agalas
roses,
room and make the most brilliant show. There are
pansies of cOuse in countless ya1ety, and cineraas,
hvdrangeas, pinks primroscs, &c, Of which nothing
can be said except that they all perfect in kind
Among rarer flowers there a few orchids a
Nidularium Splepdens, with brown flowers. Fran
csciq from Brazil group of the Araid Sicboldi and
few others whose long botanical names have for
gotten
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
The crescent-like wings of the tent contain the
fruits and Vegetables meager show, and not as
extensive as an average county fair In tie United
States would have. STILL May is scarcely the month
when we could expect any great variety OF orchard
and garden growth in country, too, where the
cold rains crowd May weather even INTO june
There are few Strawberries, the vines growing IN
pots and doubtless raised under glass. The glganuc
stalks of asparagus. the big cucumbers' and the
creamy-white heads of cauhlOwer, ana cool, crisp
lunches of lettuce probably owe their perfection to
the same protection, aud are therefore Of
no interest as specimens OF skill in out-of-
door culture The raising of fruits and
vegetables under glass for the tables of the rich is
carried on much more extensively here than IN
America People have not had the Bermudas and
the West Indies mt their doors we have to draw
upon for these luxunes, and the products OF the
South come 10 them, if at all, only after long
journeys OF more interest than the show of these
primeres is the really fine display OF Winter apples
and pears-apples as plump and rosy-cheeked as If
Just picked from the tree, and pears as fragrant ana
tOothsome as any that come from Cahiormm IN
August TO our New-YOrk markets. Our Ameri-
can farmers know how 10 keep apples
until July brings "A new crop OF
Early Sweets and Harvest Pippns, but
doubt whether many of them have eaten great
luscious mellow pears in the middle OF May. The