14 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY 



For laboratory or classroom use the writer 

 prefers loose sheets of the standard size and 

 form. Where a great many are to be used, 

 it is a matter of economy to have them printed 

 on news or poster paper, railroad manila, or 

 other cheap stock. It is often desirable, for 



FIG. 2 CARD CABINET FOR FILING DESCRIPTIONS 



other reasons, to have these cheap paper 

 blanks. They can be used in the field for 

 lead-pencil notes, or for making temporary 

 descriptions, which can be copied later on to 

 the permanent cards. The present writer, 

 when he has a large number of samples for 

 description, finds it a great saving of time to 

 dictate the descriptions to a stenographer, 

 who takes them down on these temporary 

 sheets, afterward transferring them with the 

 typewriter to the regular filing cards. 



