Local Flower Fanciers: Your florist is a good man for you to know for other rea¬sons than his ability to put you in touch with your local flower fanciers. He can teach you a lot about flowers, he can lend you fine specimens to photograph, and he can display your photography in his shop, which is wonderful advertis¬ing for you.
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 Flower Capital:Ghent is the flower capital of Belgium, lying amid miles of cultivated ower beds, and also the center of Flemish culture and erudition, with a important university. Of course such a city should be full of great
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.
On The Other Hand See Glazed Flower Pot:Place all food in glazed flower pot saucers, which are easily cleaned. Both ducklings and goslings must have fresh, clean water available at all times; use widemouthed water bottle.
For the purpose of obtaining unity in a room, some of the furniture covers may be in the same material as the curtains. In many instances, a colorful glazed chintz that has been chosen for the curtains may be repeated in slipcovers for one or two chairs or a sofa, with cushions made of a plain material, either plain glazed chintz, taffeta, or satin in colors appearing in the chintz pattern. Plain glazed chintz is a particularly good choice for use in rooms where wallpaper and a patterned rug have been used.
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