THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, February 2, 1858. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
273 
D 
M 
D 
W 
FEBRUARY 2—8, 1858. 
Weather n 
Barometer. 
ear Lon 
Thermo. 
DON IN 1 
Wind. 
857. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R.andS. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
Day of 
Year. 
2 
Tu 
Purification. Candl. Day. 
29.601—29.512 
38—24 
S.W. 
— 
40 a. 7 
49 a. 4 
10a. 18 
18 
14 
0 
33 
3 
W 
Acacia floribunda. 
29.964—29.641 
35—24 
s.w. 
— 
38 
50 
11 33 
19 
14 
7 
34 
4 
Th 
Acacia grandis. 
30.245—30.106 
34—13 
E. 
— 
37 
52 
morn. 
20 
14 
13 
35 
5 
F 
Acacia Drummondii. 
30.146—29.934 
42—36 
S.W. 
.14 
35 
54 
0 47 
<rr 
14 
18 
36 
6 
S 
Azalea Perryana. 
29.875—29.836 
49—33 
s.w. 
.01 
33 
56 
2 3 
22 
14 
22 
37 
i 7 
Sun 
Sexaqesima Sunday. 
29.783—29.696 
45—32 
s.w. 
— 
31 
58 
3 16 
23 
14 
25 
38 
8 
M 
Azalea triumphans. 
29.651—29.637 
38—36 
s.w. 
.02 
30 
Y. 
. 
4 25 
24 
14 
28 
39 
Meteorology of the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-one years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 43.5° and 32.6°, respectively. The greatest heat, 57 J , occurred on the 3rd, in 1850 ; and the lowest cold, 10°, 
i on the 5th, in 1830. During the period 115 days were fine, and on 102 rain fell. 
PHOTOGRAPHY POE THE MANY. 
{Continued from page 242.) 
DRY NEGATIVE COLLODION PROCESS. 
For Travellers. 
Apparatus. —Same as for ordinary collodion 
process. 
Chemicals. 
(Iodizer.) Cost.— s . d. 
A. —2 czs. iodized collodion . 1 6 
(Exciter.) 
B. —120 grs. nitrate of silver in 4 ozs. ) ^ g 
distilled water + 2 dr ms. alcohol ) 
(Preserver.) 
Cv—1 pint Long's preservative solution.. 1 0 
(Developer.) 
D. —25 grs. gallic acid in 3 ozs. distilled) q ^ 
water + 1 drm. alcohol.j 
d. —30 grs. nitrate of silver in 1 oz. clis-l g » 
tilled water.J 
(Pixer.) 
E. — 8 ozs. hyposulphate of soda in 1) q g 
pint river water.f 
The preparation is carried on in the dark room, 
as described at page 191. 
On removing a plate from the nitrate of silver 
bath, the prepared side must be several times 
evenly covered with solution c . The plates thus 
treated, are protected from dust, and suffered to 
dry; then packed in a grooved plate-box, where 
(if light, tight, and dry), they will keep good for 
many months. 
The exposure in the camera varies with the 
light, averaging about six minutes. 
As development need not take place imme¬ 
diately on removal from the camera, the traveller 
has only to carry with him a box of previously 
sensitized plates, which are developed on his 
return. 
Preparatory to developing, the preservative film 
(on the impressed plate), is softened, by placing 
the glass, face uppermost, in a dish of distilled 
water for five minutes. 
Then mix solution D and d. in the proportion of 
two ounces of the former to half a drachm of the 
latter, and develope. When the photograph has 
become apparent in all its parts, a few drops of 
solution d are suffered to fall on the plate, which 
intensifies the already distinct negative. 
In about half an hour, the picture may be re¬ 
moved to the fixing bath E; when it is finished in 
the usual manner. 
N.B.—If rapidity of development be necessary, 
the ordinary pyrogallic solution (page 192), can be 
made use of, as a substitute for D d. 
Sensitized dry collodion plates can be purchased 
complete, in light, tight cases, at the following- 
prices :— 
Size of Plates. Per doz. 
Inches. Inches. £ s. d. 
4J by 3J.. . 0 5 0 
5 „ 4 0 6 6 
5 „ 6 0 8 6 
7 „ 6 0 14 0 
15 „ 12 . 4 0 0 
To architects, engineers, &c., whose time is 
precious, these plates will be found particularly 
useful. 
THE ROYAL MARRIAGE. 
Two years ago, just about this time, I gave to 
Mr. Gunter’s people, who were to supply the breakfast 
and wedding-cake ; also to furnish plants for a royal 
wedding in London — that of her majesty “Queen 
Mab ” of these pages—a list of the most likely plants 
to be then in flower. We had lots of flowers up 
from the country in addition, and after the best was 
made of every sprig, leaf, and petal, I thanked my 
stars that this was not a wedding in the Royal Family 
of England, on account of the scarcity of flowers. 
But was it better last week, at the wedding of the 
Princess Royal ? It was not ; nor even so good. 
“ Queen Mab ” is one of the first herself, in the 
flower way, and her garden in the country produced 
as many kinds of flowers, at that time, as one could 
buy in Covent Garden last week. Whether such 
things are owing to our taste, as a nation, I know not : 
but one thing I am quite sure of, and that is, that not¬ 
withstanding all our talking and writing, our pride 
and boast, of the skill and science of our practical 
hands and heads, we are certainly, as a nation, very 
deficient in flower forcing. We not only beat the 
globe, in forcing fruit, but we almost crack it to its 
centre with our boasting in that branch of the craft. 
We can grow “specimens” of plants for the Shows, 
so large that no ordinary doox is wide enough to admit 
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