eeterER ARTICLES: 
PHOTOGRAPHY IN BOTANY AND IN HORTICULTURE. 
(WITH TWO FIGURES) 
ALMOsT every working scientist knows something about photogra 
phy, and probably no one will deny that a camera is one of the indis: 
pensable equipments in every well-regulated botanical or horticultural 
laboratory. Yet a casual acquaintance among various horticl 9 
and botanists, and the repeated publication of unnecessarily inadequate 
(not to say atrociously bad) photographs, lead us to believe that the use 
of the camera in horticultural and botanical work will bear some discus 
sion. We.are convinced that the value of the camera as a piece _ 
scientific apparatus is not generally appreciated. We believe tha 
camera is not used as often as it ought to be, and we believe yet more 
strongly that the photographic methods with which many science ve 
€rs content themselves are not really creditable. We believe that 3 ® 
help in daily work, the camera ranks next to the microscope fo! a 
botanist, and far above the microscope for the horticulturist. i 
while every laboratory has a row of books on microtechnique and 
while every botanist and most horticulturists work hard to ii 
themselves. in microscopical methods, a book on photograp pee 
rarity, and men are satisfied to blunder along with almost any ge 
camera, and with plates and developers of which they know po 
nothing. Some even are willing to “press the button ” and ET 
company in another state “do the rest.’ 
In the matter of photographing plants, fruits, flowers, 
objects," we may perhaps offer a few observations as the result ’ 
ments covering several years. 
The particular piece of apparatus required for this ner rti 
some support which will hold the camera approximately in a ve dis- 
Position, and will provide a transparent horizontal shelf some es 
tance from the floor. The objects are laid on the latter sanhese 
1s focused down upon them. 
and similar 
exper 
. : : ril 1900 : ; 
Photographing flowers and trees,” Zhe Photo-Minialure, N 5 ss 
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