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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Sept. 15. 1855. 



" The Rose. 

 " Hortoram regina suos ostendit honores, 

 Prffi qua puniceis ardens aurora quadrigis 

 Palleat, atque suos confundat Delia vultus. 



Praternos aniraos injuria facta sorori 



Permovit, Iresoque furens pro numine Phoebus 



Ultores radios obliquo lumine torsit : 



Lumine quo, ccepit primum tasdere Rhodanthen 



Esse deam. Nam pes per sese altaribus ipsis 



Figitur, et ductis saxo radicibus haeret. 



Jam virides tollit ramos, dum brachia tendit. 



Languet egens animi, sed adhuc regina, suamque 



Dum mutat formam, vel sic mutasse decebat, 



Nam pulcher flos est, fuerat quaa pulchra Rhodanthe, 



Felix, divinos si nunquam visa fuisset 



Digaa pati cultus, nee sic meruisset amari." 



BiBLIOTHECAR. ChETHAM. 



Laurel.* 



Oak.* 



OUve.* 



Addenda to Ma. Walcott's " ISTotes on Trees 

 and Flowers :" 



Have a Symbolism. 

 Ivy, immortality. White Lily, purity. 



Oak, virtue and majesty. Palm-branch, martyrdom. 

 Passion-flower, crucifixion. 



Funeral Chaplets. 



Myrtle.* Amaranth. 



Rosemary. 



Cypress. 



Names of Founders and Donors of Religious Buildings. 



Mulberry leaves are used in St. Mary's Church, New 

 Shoreham ; the convent to which it belonged having 

 been erected by Sir John Mowbray. 



Maple leaves are upon a brass in St. Mary's Church, 

 Broadwater, Sussex, to Walter Mapleton. 



The Rose (for Roslyn) occurs in most of the decorations 

 in Roslyn chapel, near Edinburgh. 



"Blazed every rose — carved buttress fair." 



Have given Origin to many Embellishments of Architecture. 



The papyrus in the temples of Egypt. 



The acanthus was used in the Corinthian as well as in 

 the Composite Order. 



The Continental and English cathedrals are decorated 

 with the vine, strawberry, holly, woodbine, oak, ivy, 

 common avens, fern, thistle, sunflower, laurel, ranun- 

 culus, and many others. 



W. p. GKirriTH. 



PHOTOGEAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



Photography on Enamel. — A recent number of La Lu- 

 miere contains a notice of a process for photographing on 

 enamel, invented and patented by MM. Bulot and Cattin, 

 of the firm of Tournachon and Companj'. The object is 

 taken as a positive on collodion, which is afterwards de- 

 tached from the glass and laid upon a plate of metal 

 (silver, copper, iron, steel, &c.), covered with enamel of 

 the colour that the dark parts of the picture are intended 

 to be : this is heated to redness, the enamel softens, and 

 the picture becomes incorporated with the vitrified coating 

 of the metal. 



This process, though very simple, requires several pre- 

 cautions; it is particularly necessary that the plate 



* Archceologia, vol. xxxiii. p. 48. 

 Xo. 3G7.] 



should be heated with great care, otherwise the enamel 

 will crack, and the picture be destroj-ed. 



The inventors have executed some portraits in this 

 rnanner, which exhibit a remarkable finish. It is pecu- 

 liarly applicable to jewellery ; several small portraits may 

 be formed into bracelets, or separately they may be used 

 for studs, buttons, &c. It may also be applied" to terra 

 cotta, porcelain, and glass, as well as to metals. 



It is very rapid, the Avhole process not occupying more 

 than a quarter of an hour, however unfavourable the 

 state of the atmosphere may be. 



Corporation Records : Application of Photography in 

 copying MSS. — The value and importance of photogra- 

 phy cannot be better appreciated than in its adaptation 

 to the copying of ancient manuscripts. We have just seen 

 a beautiful specimen of the art in a copy of King John's 

 Charter to Great Yarmouth, as a frontispiece to a pri- 

 vately-circulated repertory of the records of the corpo- 

 ration of that town, printed at the expense of the Town 

 Council. It suggests to us what may be done in making 

 photography universally useful in our municipal institu- 

 tions ; and we take the occasion of ofl'ering a recommend- 

 ation to other corporate bodies to take the same liberal 

 views as the corporation of Yarmouth have done, by 

 printing a list of their charters and records ; and where 

 manuscripts are, from their antiquity or other adven- 

 titious circumstances, worthy of being effectually saved 

 from the ruthless hand of Time, multiplied copies may be 

 taken of them for illustration. 



Novel Method of taking Stereoscopes (Vol. xii., p. 171.). 

 Though I am an ardent photographer, I content myself 

 with profiting by your photographic correspondence, with- 

 out filling your columns with my own numerous dif- 

 ficulties. I cannot, however, sit quietly by while Mr. 

 George Normax is playing off upon credulous photo- 

 graphers his " Novel Method." I beg to warn those of 

 your correspondents who have not, as I have, studied the 

 theory of the stereoscope, that this " Novel Method " is a 

 pure delusion. It is simply impossible to get a stereo- 

 scopic picture without two diverse perspectives ; and it is 

 equally impossible to make two diverse perspectives 

 coincide without a binocular apparatus. The " Novel 

 Method," moreover, is not altogether new. Dr. Anthony 

 of Birmingham mentioned to me nearly a year ago his 

 attempts to produce a single stereoscopic photograph, and 

 I then told liim, as 1 now tell Mr. Norjian, that the 

 thing is an impossibility. C. Mansfield Ijjgleby. 



Birmingham. 



Mr. Norman's suggestion for obtaining a single stereo- 

 scopic picture to exhibit the properties of the double 

 picture, cannot, I apprehend, be acted on with any satisfac- 

 tory result. Last winter, as a family amusement, I at- 

 tempted to unite the two pictures on the screen by means 

 of the double lantern, but failed. In certain parts where 

 the images coincided, or nearly so, there was a little in- 

 crease of intensitj', and this might have been the case 

 throughout the picture, if the extreme limits of the two 

 images could have been made to coincide ; but this is a 

 practical impossibility. A little consideration will, I 

 think, suffice to show that the stereoscopic effect can be 

 produced only by two pictures, viewed by an apparatus 

 (a stereoscope) that restricts each eye to one of them. If 

 a single picture be taken on Mr. Norman's plan, or if 

 two pictures be united on the screen by the double lan- 

 tern, the result obtained is either a picture differing in no 

 respect from our ordinary view of any object, or it is a 

 compound picture formed of two images not perfectly co- 

 incident, — and whilst coincidence could not be effected 

 by looking upon it with one eye, the looking upon it with 



