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Flowers: Nicotiana alata originally came from southern Brazil, and its flowers once opened about 6:00 P.M. But hybridizers have been busy and the flowers now stay open most of the day. Yet it is at night that the sweet fragrance makes its mark. Two cultivars are especially recommended: 'Grandiflora Alata' growing 3 feet high, with large white flowers often 2 inches across; and 'Lime Green' reaching 30 inches in height, with flowers the shade of lime sherbert.These flower between late spring and mid-summer and should be pruned as soon as their flowers fade. First cut out thin and weak shoots, and those that cross a shrub's center Then cut out to within a couple of buds of their base all shoots that have borne flowers. The removal of flowered shoots leaves young ones that will bear flowers during the following year If shrubs have been neglected for several seasons, many can be rejuvenated by cutting back the complete shrub. However this usually means foregoing flowers for one season. See Also Flower:There 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.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 brilliant 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. On The Other Hand See Flower Tattoos:With this equipment, you will be able to produce those startling close-up pictures which, when enlarged by projection on a screen, seem to magnify the original beauty of the flower tattooss. 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 tattoos photography specialist. The other pictures you have occasion to shoot, those showing garden layouts and pleasant clumps and clusters and masses of flower tattoosing plants, will take care The best sources of customers for your flower tattoos photography are the garden clubs and the flower tattoos clubs in your community. If you don't know the flower tattoos 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 tattoos stems as they appear. Self-sown seedlings will grow freely if the plants are allowed to flower tattoos; 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 tattoos head and dry slowly indoors. |
