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THE COTTAGE 
GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, April 28, 185/. 
for fodder the first crop should be cut just before the 
panicles appear, and the second as soon as the seed arrives 
at the milky stage. It may be tied up in bundles, shocked 
and cured like the tops or stalks of Indian corn. If not 
intended to be employed for any other economical use, after 
the seed has been removed, and the weather be cool, and 
the average temperature of the day does not exceed 45° or 
50° F., the stalks may be cut up close to the ground, tied in 
bundles, collected into shocks, or stowed in a mass for fodder 
in sheds or barns in a succulent state, where they will keep 
without injury, if desired, until spring. In this condition, 
however, the lower parts of the stalks will be found to be 
quite hard and woocly, and will require to be chopped into 
small pieces for feeding. 
Precaution. —Particular care should be observed not to 
cultivate this plant in the vicinity of Dourah corn, Guinea 
corn, or Broom-corn, as it hybridises, or mixes freely with 
those plants, which would render the seeds of the product 
unfit for sowing. w 
Specimens of the sugar and molasses produced from this 
cane in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and other northern 
states, and numerous letters attesting its great value, have 
reached this city (Washington ).—New York Tribune. 
PHOTOGRAPHY FOR GARDENERS. 
(Continued from page 9.) 
Camera Stand. —The simplest form of construction is 
shown in the accompanying diagram. W is a triangle of 
wood one inch thick, 10" x 10" x 10", with the corners cut 
off. P Pare pieces of wood 1" thick, each 2" xl}". These 
are nailed to the under side of the triangle. Pins (pp) 
passing through them form pivots for the upper end of each 
leg (L) of the stand. Our apparatus is now complete. 
Preparation of Paper. 
Cost, 
s. d. 
0 8 
0 10 
0 3 
Solutions. 
A —45 grs. of iodide of potassium in 3 oz. of } 
distilled water. ( 
B —50 grs. of nitrate of silver, 14 drachms of ) 
glacial acetic acid, 1 oz. of distilled water .. ] 
c —5 grs. of gallic acid in 1 oz. of distilled } 
water .j 
N.Ii. Place the bottle in warm water while the gallic acid is 
dissolving. 
The paper (Canson’s negative, 2s. Gd. per quire ),* cut to 
the size of the frame, is suffered to imbibe solution A in the 
same manner as described at p. 414 of the last volume. 
It may be kept in a dry portfolio, and will not be injured 
by exposure to light. 
N.B. The prepared side must be marked in one of the 
corners. 
The plant to be copied is placed upon a wall or other 
firm support. 
J he cameia is fixed on the stand, and the lens focussed 
until a peifectly distinct picture appears on the ground "lass, 
which must then be drawn into the upper part of the camera. 
Its position on the stand being noted, the camera is taken 
to the dark room (p. 414), where a piece of the previously 
* Squire’s, 52, King William Street. 
iodized paper is floated on solution B ; after five minutes it 
is placed wet in the camera frame, and the latter attached 
firmly to the camera. 
Having covered the lens by means of the stop, the camera 
is removed to the stand, and, being placed in position, the 
cap is withdrawn for a period, varying with the intensity 
of the light, of from five to twenty minutes. The proper 
time of exposure will be ascertained by practice. 
The picture taken, the lens is again stopped, and the 
instrument removed to the dark room. The paper is then 
floated with its prepared side on solution G until the image 
developes itself. 
When sufficiently intense the photograph is fixed by 
soaking in the solution of hyposulphate of soda (seep. 414) 
till the yellows of the picture are changed to a clear white; 
then wash well in water. 
This produces a negative photograph ; that is, the natural 
lights and shades are reversed. 
To produce a positive picture it is printed on salted nitrate 
paper in the pressure-frame before described (p. 414). 
If the negative be carefully preserved it will serve to pro¬ 
duce an immense number of copies. 
We have thus endeavoured to give our readers an idea of 
photographic manipulation in its simplest aspect. If there 
be anything they do not understand we will do our best to 
set them right. Photographic art is at present in its infancy; 
there is much room for improvement, and those of our 
friends who have leisure for experimenting will find that 
the juices of many flowers and vegetables expressed in alcohol 
form an exceedingly sensitive surface when applied to paper. 
“ It seems that this photographic influence pervades all 
Nature; nor can we say where it stops. We do not know 
but it may imprint upon the world around us our features 
as they are modified by various passions, and thus fill Nature 
with daguerreotype impressions of all our actions that are 
performed in daylight. It may be, too, that there are tests 
by which Nature, more skilfully than any human photo¬ 
graphist, can bring out and fix those portraits, so that 
acuter senses than ours shall see them, as on a great 
canvass, spread over the material universe. Perhaps, too, 
they may never fade from that canvass, but become speci¬ 
mens in the great picture gallery of eternity. 
“How does this principle strew the path of eternity with 
flowers to that man who, in this world, finds his highest 
pleasure in doing good ! ’’— Edward A. Copland. 
BUGAINVILUEA SPECTABILIS. 
This very showy plant has been in flower here for the 
last three weeks. Although the plant is five years old, this 
is the first time of its flowering. It is grown in an inter 
