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Found In Flower For Most: 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 in flower for most 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 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 Flower Pot:With this equipment, you will be able to produce those startling close-up pictures which, when enlarged by projec¬tion on a screen, seem to magnify the original beauty of the flower pots. And these are the pictures which your clients cannot duplicate with their own cameras. They are the shots which will establish you as a flower pot photography specialist. The other pictures you have occasion to shoot, those showing garden layouts and pleasant clumps and clusters and masses of flower poting plants, will take care The best sources of customers for your flower pot photography are the garden clubs and the flower pot clubs in your commu¬nity. If you don't know the flower pot clubs, get in touch with a florist for the information you need.
Propagation and growing: sow seed in late spring, in well-drained, rich soil. If seed is not required, remove the flower pot stems as they appear. Self-sown seedlings will grow freely if the plants are allowed to flower pot; if not, propagate them by dividing the parent plants approximately every three years or so. The seeds are ready to harvest when they have turned a gray-green color and have hardened. Cut off the whole flower pot head and dry slowly indoors.
On The Other Hand See Superlative Flower Gardens:Salzburg has as its main set piece in the palace-park field the lovely ^chloss Mirabell, with superlative flower gardens. This palace, once a sum-ner retreat of the prince-prelates, was badly bombed during the war but las been faithfully rebuilt. The garden-park around it has a minuscule open-air theater, still occasionally used, that dates from Mozart's time. A small rustic park lies back of the Mirabell ensemble, and in a tiny house here, close to the river, Mozart wrote The Magic Flute.
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. |
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