A man by the name of Albert Richards spent over forty years experimenting with an art form called floral radiographs. "Floral radiographs literally provide one with a third eye with which to see and appreciate the beauty in the secret garden of flowers. With a rose, the nearest petal hides from our view all of the other petals and structures that lie beyond it, that so much of the beauty of the blossom is hidden. With the penetrating power of the X ray, floral radiographs reveal all the details of the successive layers of petals and other structures. No chemicals are introduced into the flower nor is it harmed by the small exposure to X rays." The editor of the Smithsonian Magazine wrote: "Albert G. Richards, a teacher of dental radiography, had focused his x-ray machine not on teeth, but on blossoms, thus revealing the startling inner beauty of familiar flowers."