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Study Of Flower: IF YOU ARE keenly interested in gardening, or the serious study of flowers, or in hunting wild varieties, you are likely to become an enthusiastic flower photographer. Because photography is the perfect ally of these other hobbies. It will enable you to make pictorial studies of choice blooms, or to bring home good views of flowers you must not pick. You can make periodic pictures to show the marvelous evolution from tight bud to full-blown blossom, and the rotation of bloom in your garden. If you wish, you can use photography in judging the pictorial effect of various plantings, or in the study of decorative garden design and pattern.
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.See Also Against Flower Pot:Floiver festivals are frequent in the against flower pot belt between Haarlem and Leiden. When the tulips are at their height in April, every Sunday is Tulip Sunday. A National against flower pot Show (mid-March to mid-May) is held on the Keukenhof Estate at Lisse. Later in the season (not the bulb-against flower pot season), two magnificent festivals occur. The Hague stages a bril¬liant against flower pot 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 against flower pot Parade (September) culminates in the Olympic Stadium, for the award of prizes. The floats are always marvelous.
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 against 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 against flower pot photography specialist. The other pictures you have occasion to shoot, those showing garden layouts and pleasant clumps and clusters and masses of against flower poting plants, will take care The best sources of customers for your against flower pot photography are the garden clubs and the against flower pot clubs in your commu¬nity. If you don't know the against flower pot clubs, get in touch with a florist for the information you need.
On The Other Hand See These 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 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 handled mow¬ing machine, or in other ways, and 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 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.seriously injured.
The reason the turf in the beds is thick enough to repel crab grass through all these flower beds years is simple. The soil there was origi¬nally spaded and 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 flower beds squares contains a pond, in the center of which stands a white bird sculpture. An arbor covered with climbers, and a Table and 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. |
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