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Announcement


Drawing on 50 years of gardening experience and 15 years of
experience with personal computers, Mary's Gardens announces the
posting to its Internet Web Site of a review of 3 state-of-the-art
computer software programs suited for making computerized Mary
Garden designs.

First reviewed, and recommended for all, is the popular,
user-friendly, FLOWERscape software program which uses simple menu
commands to "dig" a garden plot in a grassy site and to "plant"
flowers in it - to produce a garden design which is at the same
time a virtual garden giving a preview of the actual garden to be
planted.

The plants virtually planted with FLOWERscape are selected from its
plant image library and data base of 300 flowers - which include
120 Flowers of Our Lady, found by the research of botanists and
folklorists to have been named devotionally to symbolize the life
and mysteries of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the popular religious
traditions of the medieval countrysides.

ClarisWorks, an entry-level general computer graphics program, is
recommended for adding to garden designs created on FLOWERscape an
image of a Marian sculpture, to make them virtual Mary Gardens.
Digital photos of eight such statues, from actual Mary Gardens, are
available for downloading with a web browser from the Mary's
Gardens web site.

A third, advanced, software program, Fractal Design Painter, is
recommended for the use of those experienced with computer graphics
in making custom libraries of miniature flowering plant images from
their own digital photos, and "planting" them in garden sites of
their own design.  "Hose" feature can "plant" colonies of each
flower.

Detailed step-by-step instructions for the use of each program are
included in the review.

The three software programs are available - for both Macintosh and
Windows computers - from established mail order software suppliers
advertising in computer magazines.


FLOWERscape is a registered trademark of Real Estate Business
Services

ClarisWorks is a registered trademark of Claris Corporation and
Apple Computer

Fractal Design Painter is a registered trademark of Fractal Design
Corporation

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