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And Flower Beds: The grass has had no lime, fertilizer, weed control measures or treatment for pests or diseases. Neither has it been watered, but because it is lo¬cated in a low-lying area this is not serious. Except hi the severest droughts the soil is reasonably moist beneath.
The interesting thing is that after a quarter of a century the outlines of the flower beds are clearly discernible. With¬in the beds the grasses are practically all.
Kentucky Blue and flower beds other desirable kinds, except for odd places where sod has been kicked up by ball players or others or has been disturbed by a badly hand flower bedsled mow¬ing machine, or in other ways, and flower beds crab grass has invaded. This survival of desir¬able grasses would not be so surprising were it not for the fact that between the beds (and flower beds the between the beds area is far more extensive than that of the beds) there is practically nothing but crab grass; it is almost a pure stand flower beds.seriously injured.
The reason the turf in the beds is thick enough to repel crab grass through all these years is simple. The soil there was origi¬nally spaded and flower beds generously nourished.
This enterprising Roof garden is perhaps best undertaken by an expert, since major alterations on the already established building are necessary if heavy objects such as raised flower beds or ponds are to be supported. The plot is a basic square incorporating two smaller squares placed at opposite corners. One of these squares contains a pond, in the center of which stand flower bedss a white bird sculpture. An arbor covered with climbers, and flower beds a Table and flower beds chairs, occupy the other corner. There is a raised bed by the side of the pool, which repeats the style of the peripheral raised beds.See Also Flower Battles:Festivals of Monaco are bright and varied. The Feast of Sainte-Devote, patron of the Monegasques, especially of the Royal Family, oc¬curs on January 27; Flower Battles are "fought" at various changing in¬tervals in winter and spring; Good Friday sees a procession on the Rock; the Feast of St. John brings traditional bonfires on the nights of June 24 and 25; and the National Holiday, on November 19, is a day when the people go all out in celebration.
There need be no question in your mind about the market for good flower photography. One of the big slide film dis¬tributors has found flower fanciers the most consistent buy ers of all among slide collectors, even though the pictures offered are strictly of specimen flowers. These cannot possibly have the same appeal as pictures of flowers grown by the buyer in his own soil. The only flower fancier who is not an eager prospect for pictures of his blooms is one who has never seen a color slide transparency of a beautiful flower projected. A close-up of a lovely flower on a screen is a sight to make anyone, flower lover or not, gasp at its beauty.
On The Other Hand See City Flower Gardens:Gardens are at their magnificent best in sun-warmed Monaco, so closely guarded from rough winds by the Maritime Alps. Four varied gardens, all beautifully maintained, are the Casino Park and Flower Beds; the Exotic Gardens (with interesting grottoes), appropriately known as "Petite Afrique," boasting tropical trees and shrubs; the neighboring Park of Princess Antoinette; and the St. Martin Gardens, with their hand¬some pines, adjacent to the Oceanographic Museum on Monaco Rock.
6. Palaces and Gardens Denmark's castles form a very notable com¬pany. They mostly date from the 16th century and are almost invariably surrounded by beautiful parks and gardens. In the capital there are Rosenborg and Frederiksberg, supplemented gardenwise by the Royal Horticultural Gardens and the city flower gardens's splendidly landscaped Botanical Gardens. Other castles in Zealand are Hiller0d's Frederiksborg (already mentioned), not to be confused with Frederiksfcerg, and Naestved's Gis-selfeld, while beyond the confines of Zealand at least seven leap up in the mind to be counted. |
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