White Flower: N. 'Flower Drift'; H: 14"; M; (4); Double white flower with small tufts of orange between the petals.
N. 'Minnow'; H: 7"; M; (8); Miniature with white petals and a yellow cup.
N. 'Salome'; H: 18"; M/L; (2); White petals with a coral-pink cup.
N. 'Hawera'; H: 8"; M/L; (5); Three to five lemon-yellow flowers on each stem.
N. 'Cheerfulness'; H: 15"; L; (4); White with a creamy yellow center.
Also for late July into August a pot containing one blooming lily-of-the-Nile (Agapanthus africanus 'Albus') should be moved about for the best effect. This plant is only hardy above Zone 8 and should spend winters in a greenhouse or a cool north window.
Among the annuals used for the moonlight garden are white gera¬niums (Pelaragonium x hortorum), white petunias (Petunia x hybrida), white nicotiana (Nicotiana data 'Grandiflora'), white cosmos (Cosmos tipinnatus 'Purity'), white spider flower (Cleome Hasslerana 'Alba' or 'Snow Queen'), and for a final round of color under a Harvest Moon, some white bedding mums (Chrysanthemum x morifolium).See Also 6-inch Flower Pot:Gold fields range in height from 8 to 24 inches (20—60 cm). Their 6-inch flower pot heads are about % to 1 inch (13-25 mm) in diameter, with flat petal-like 6-inch flower pots around the edge of the 6-inch flower pot head and short tubular 6-inch flower pots in the center. Some species branch freely, while others grow un-branched and erect. The leaves, especially the lower ones, are usually opposite and may be either simple or compound.
Gold fields range in height from 8 to 24 inches (20—60 cm). Their 6-inch flower pot heads are about % to 1 inch (13-25 mm) in diameter, with flat petal-like 6-inch flower pots around the edge of the 6-inch flower pot head and short tubular 6-inch flower pots in the center. Some species branch freely, while others grow un-branched and erect. The leaves, especially the lower ones, are usually opposite and may be either simple or compound.
On The Other Hand See Dioecious Flower:RAFFLESIA, ra-fle'zhi-a, an East Indian genus of parasitic plants, reduced to apetalous dioecious flowers and named after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the discoverer. R. Arnoldi was the first species discovered in Sumatra. It is a gigantic flower, springing from the roots or stems of Vitis (cissus), three feet in diameter and con¬sisting of a globular central cup, containing either the ovary, or the numerous stamens, crowned by a ring, and the five-lobed calyx, fleshy and flesh-colored, blotched with pink and yellow inside and with brownish or bluish scales exteriorly. The whole flower sometimes weighs 15 pounds. It re¬mains expanded for a few days only, and then decays, emitting a putrid odor that attracts car¬rion-loving flies, which probably assist in cross-fertilization. The fruit is a brown, rough sur¬faced nut, holding innumerable seeds. Certain Javanese species are valued there as powerful styptics.
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.
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