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6-inch Flower Pot: If you have the room, try one of the numerous lily naturalizing mixtures offered by many nurseries. For a very reasonable amount, you can buy 30-inch-tall, blooming-size seedlings, in colors of red, orange, yellow, white, cream, or pink.
For bloom in mid- to late September use the fine Lilium mosanum with its elegant, 6-inch-long white atop 4 to 6 foot si Or try L formosanum 'Little Snow White', a cultivar from Tail with the same size flower but on a 9-inch stem. If grown from sown in September, this lily will bloom the following summer. It makes an excellent pot plant.Use 6-inch flower pot saucer. Place in cage at same time each day. If birds do not bathe, they may be lightly sprayed with atomizer. See Also Spider Flower:They are good at the back of the border because the individual blossoms which close at night are large and easily visible from a distance. Germination takes two to three weeks and they are hardy annuals. Set plants 6 inches apart and make successive sowings over the summer. The cardoon (Cynara cardunculus) has made such an impressions on my consciousness that it has a special essay on page 26. Spider flower (Cleome Hasslerana.) gets its name from the spider-like (or more truthfully, daddy-longlegs-like) blossoms with many long, waving stamens. Planted in large masses, spider flowers look j like blooming shrubbery.Capture: Spider never jumps; when disturbed, it retreats to farthest corner of its ragged web; push broom into web against spider, which usually remains quietly among bristles; with small stick gently push it from broom into quart jar The black widow spider is included in this discussion, first, because it is the only spider that is, to date, known to be deadly to man; second, because it is so common across the country that children should be taught to recognize it (knowledge is necessary for protection); third, because it can be easily maintained in captivity without fear, and its habits observed. On The Other Hand See Many A Flower Photographer:To many a flower photographer, color films are the "last word" particularly Kodachrome in miniature sizes, which affords bothThere need be no question in your mind about the market for good flower photography. One of the big slide film distributors 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. |
