NUMBER TALLIES OF METAL. 332 



NUPHAR. 



in them through which a piece of copper 

 wire may be passed in order to attach the 

 label to the plant itself. The method to be 

 followed in doing so will be clearly under- 

 stood from an examination of Fig. I, which 

 represents a tally and wire prepared for 

 attachment. Copper wire is recommended 



labels holes must be made in the centre 

 close to the top or bottom or in any 

 corner of each square (in which latter 

 case the tally will hang diamond fashion), 

 in the apex of the triangles, and in the 

 rounded tops of the oblong labels. The 

 numbers should be impressed on the widest 



FIG. 2. DIAGRAM SHOWING METHODS OF CUTTING STRIP OF M^TAL INTO TALLIES 

 WITHOUT WASTE. 



for this purpose, because it is more ductile 

 and far more easily bent than iron wire. 

 One end of the wire must be twisted to 

 form a loop : the wire must then be passed 

 round a branch of the plant, or its stem, 

 and the other end passed through the loop. 

 This end must then be passed through the 

 hole in the tally and bent in such a manner 

 that the tally cannot be detached and 

 removed without unbending the wire. 

 The amateur gardener who is fond of 

 helping himself and of making appliances 

 for garden use for himself, may learn from 

 Fig. 2 how to divide a slip of lead or zinc 

 or tin into tallies of convenient shape 

 without any waste. In this diagram the 

 outline of the tallies is shown by different 

 modes of marking. Thus the portion of 

 the strip that is shown in the figure is 

 divided by perpendicular lines consisting 

 of dashes into four squares, by dotted lines 

 into seven triangles and two semi-triangles, 

 and by a serpentine line of dots and dashes 

 and perpendiculars, let fall from this line 

 to the apex of each triangle into seven 

 labels of rectangular oblong form with 

 curved top and two semi-labels of the 

 same kind. For the suspension of these 



parts. When these metal tallies are used 

 for plants to which they cannot be affixed 

 as shown in Fig. 2, they may be attached 

 in the same manner to a stick, which may 

 be thrust into the ground close to the 

 plant. 



Nummularia (nat. ord. Lyslmachia). 

 This pretty trailing plant, which is 

 suitable alike for rock-work, baskets, 

 embellishment of the conservatory and 

 greenhouse, and for window gardening, 

 is called Mummularia from the supposed 

 resemblance of its long strings of golden- 

 yellow flowers to rows of gold corn, hence 

 its common name of Moneywort. It is 

 also familiarly known as Creeping Jenny. 

 Propagate by division of the roots when 

 flowering has ceased, or by offsets, detached 

 from parent plant, with rootlets springing 

 from them, or by cutting taken in summer. 

 It will grow in any ordinary soil. 



Nuphar (nat. ord. Nymphsea'cea). 



A genus numbering but a few species, 

 among which is Nuphar luteum, the Yellow 

 Water Lily. This lily is perfectly hardy, 

 and, like all of its kind, may be grown with 



