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letters are thus kept in a straight line. The imprinted end 

 of the sheet-lead is then cut off, and forms the label. 



Composition lead labels with the names cast on them are 

 much used in England, are very 

 neat and durable but expensive. 

 (Fig. 1 88). They may be imported 

 from any of the leading seedsmen 

 abroad. 



FIG. 187. Device for Stamp- 

 ing Lead Tags. 



FIG. 188. English Cast 

 Metal Tag. 



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FIG. 190. Notched Num- 

 ber Wooden Tag. 



FIG. 189. Numbering by a Notcned Stick. 



Sticks or tallies at the ends of nursery rows, or labels sus- 

 pended on the successive trees of a row of standards, may be 

 durably numbered on red cedar, after the following manner, 

 to correspond with a written register in a book. Fig. 189 

 shows the mode of notching with a knife, to indicate the ten 

 figures. To prevent mistakes by getting them inverted, they 

 are always read downward on a stake, or from the loop of a 

 suspended label. Fig, 190 exhibits a label on a tree marked 

 with the number 47. 



No person who plants an orchard or fruit-garden should 

 depend for distinguishing the names of his trees wholly on 

 labels, which may be lost off. The rows, and the kinds in 

 each row, should be registered in successive order, in a book 

 kept for the purpose. This will facilitate the replacement of 

 any lost label. 



