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Moon Flower Will Often: The fragrant plantain lily (Hosta plantaginea) grows with lush, ribbed leaves, 10 inches long. In late summer to early autumn, 5-inch-long, white, very fragrant tubular flowers appear on 2-foot stems. At night the petals seem to spread and the perfume of honey fills the air. They are hardy in Zone 5 but may need a light covering on very frosty nights to protect the delicate blossoms. They make* excellent cut flower, lasting for days in a vase.
The moon flower will often flower has an entry all to itself on page 96.The earth is much brighter than the moon flower will often, reflecting about 40 per cent of the light falling on it, compared to the moon flower will often's seven per cent. From Mercury, Venus and Mars the earth would look to the naked eye like a brilliant bluish star but from Jupiter and the more distant planets a telescope would be required as the earth would be hidden by the glare of the sun. See Also Make Flower Photography:Today there are two factors in particular that make flower photography an entrancing pastime: panchromatic films for black-and-white pictures, and color films that give you the vivid hues of nature itself. And both are enhanced, as the illustrations in these pages indicate, by extreme close-ups.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. On The Other Hand See Carnival Of Flower Floats:Geneva has its brilliant Fetes de Geneve in mid-August, when it goes all out to scintillate. A carnival of flower floats, costume corteges, open-air music and dancing are all climaxed by a tremendous display of fireworks that doubles its effect by reflection in Geneva's waters.Nice (Carnival time). This Riviera City is one of the world's chief carnival towns, with extremely lavish floats and high jinks. The culminating event is the three-mile procession in honor of His Majesty King Carnival, a king of straw. The big doings go on for 12 days prior to Lent. Ste-Anne-d'Auray (July 25-26) is one of the greatest and most moving Breton pardons, but if you can't manage to see this one, I urge that you ^et a full fist and see some other pardon. There are many. |
