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Between The Flower: 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.
Floiver festivals are frequent in the flower belt between the flower Haarlem and Leiden. When the tulips are at their height in April, every Sunday is Tulip Sunday. A National Flower Show (mid-March to mid-May) is held on the Keukenhof Estate at Lisse. Later in the season (not the bulb-flower season), two magnificent festivals occur. The Hague stages a bril¬liant Flower Festival (early in August), with election of the Flows Queen (parade) and with special prizes such as that for the best bicycle Decoration (open to children); and an Aalsmeer-to-Amsterdam Flower Parade (September) culminates in the Olympic Stadium, for the award of prizes. The floats are always marvelous.See Also List Of Flower Fans:Don't overlook or under¬estimate these clubs, because they provide you with a ready-made list of flower fans. There are more of them and they are more avid than you may realize. Did you know, for in¬stance, that very many flowers have Fan clubs of amateur and professional gardeners who are devoted to the cultiva¬tion and improvement of the strain? Members of these clubs often are collectors of slides of their favorite flowers.
A List of PlantsThe following is a very subjective list of wildflowers, shrubs,! grasses that do well in meadow gardens:
Achillea Millefolium, yarrow, 1-3 feet tall, white flowers Amsonia tabernaemontana, star flower, 1-3 feet, a beautiful sky Nil.
On The Other Hand See That Flower Chiefly:This comprises roses that flower chiefly on short lateral shoots as well as sub-laterals originating from two-year-old, or olden wood, including:
• R. x alba types
• Provence rose (R. centifolid) and its types
• Moss roses
• Most Damasks
• Modern shrub roses which have one main flush of bloom in mid-summer
This comprises roses that flower chiefly on short lateral shoots as well as sub-laterals originating from two-year-old, or olden wood, including:
• R. x alba types
• Provence rose (R. centifolid) and its types
• Moss roses
• Most Damasks
• Modern shrub roses which have one main flush of bloom in mid-summer |
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