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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



PHOTOGRAPHY IN NATURAL COLOURS. 



[Abstract of Lecture delivered by T. Ernest Waltham, F.R.H.S., January 28, 1908.] 



The lecturer exhibited by means of the lantern a splendid series of slides 

 illustrating the high standard to which photography of flowers in natural 

 colours had attained. Mr. Waltham did not claim to have invented an 

 entirely new process, but by the use of a combination of two and 

 sometimes three existing processes, together with a method of his own 

 devising, he was able, under favourable circumstances, to be sure of 

 getting results true to Nature : how true the slides exhibited abundantly 

 testified. He stated that he had also been able to perfect a method of 

 getting the prints on to paper when only a few were required. The series 

 of slides included portraits of dahlias, orchids and ferns, which were 

 followed by views of Holland House and the Japanese Garden there, 

 pictures of a few scenes in the Wisley Garden, including a grand 

 specimen of Spiraea Aruncus, a gigantic Gunnera, and groups of Iris 

 Kaevipferi and water-lilies ; a border of Michaelmas daisies and a rose 

 garden from other localities, and a beautiful slide showing primroses in a 

 wood at Horsham. 



In order to show the character of the winter through which alpine 

 plants pass in Switzerland, slides showing snow- and ice-clad rocks, 

 glaciers, snow-laden conifers, and so on, at different places in the Alps 

 were exhibited, while slides made of the alpine flora in summer showed 

 single plants and groups of such well-known things as Epilobium 

 rosmarinifolium growing at an altitude of about 5,300 feet among loose 

 stones, Lychnis flos-Jovis, with the yellow foxglove, and the blue and the 

 yellow aconite, the yellow gentian (Gentiana latea), and Veratrum album, 

 Dryas octopetala, various ferns, Gentiana bavarica growing in long grass 

 with Banuncuhis aconitifolius close by, the deep- coloured flowers of Bosa 

 alpina, and the alpine violets, Viola calcarata and V. biflora. All these 

 were shown as photographed in their natural colours, and growing in 

 their native home. 



