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You might think that cutting fresh flowers both for friends and for the homefront would quickly deplete our flower garden. Not so. Rather than denude various parts of our permanent flower garden to fill a vase, my wife and I have included an old Victorian idea in our garden plan: a cutting garden. We grow an abundance of annuals for color, plus a few choice perennials, all specifically grown for bouquets.

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 flowers. 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 photography specialist. The other pictures you have occasion to shoot, those showing garden layouts and pleasant clumps and clusters and masses of flowering plants, will take care The best sources of customers for your flower photography are the garden clubs and the flower clubs in your community. If you don't know the flower clubs, get in touch with a florist for the information you need.

—4251 Pennsylvania Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64111. flower Arranging Quarterly appeared on the scene in early 1985. It is a small but elegant quarterly magazine devoted to the art of flower arranging in America. Membership is $14 per year. —Floramerica, P.O. Box 263, Westwood, Massachusetts 02090. Garden is a bimonthly magazine published by the New York Botanical Garden for $10 a year. It is scientific in approach and free with membership at the garden.