788 DR' CHASE'S RECIPES. 



Labels for Trees, Wood Very Durable.— Make nice smooth strips 

 of thiu board, with a hole in one end for copper wire ; then soals: the strips in 

 strong copperas water and dry them; then soak again in lime water, after 

 which, write the name upon them and attach to branches with wire, loosely. 

 Soaking in the two mixtures forms a gypsum, which is almost insoluble, and 

 therefore very durable. — Report of Horticultural Society, of Berlin. 



Remarks. — The report claims that the same processes of soaking twine, 

 or netting would make them very dm-able, but as the proportions were not 

 given, experiment would have to settle that, not to get the solution so strong as 

 to rot the goods. For the wooden labels, it matters not how strong, if a 

 pound to a bucket of water, so much the better, but one-fourth these amounts 

 would be as "strong" as I should try them on netting, or twine for netting. 



Zinc Labels for Marking Trees, Plants, etc., to Write Name 

 "with Pencil or Ink.— The Ebriieulturist says : "The best labels for trees 

 or plants may be made by writing with a lead pencil when moist upon slips of 

 zinc, and attaching with a copper wire." Although the Country Gentleman 

 claims "this writing will last for years," yet I think it cannot show very 

 plainly, and hence give the following : 



Ink for Zinc Labels, for Trees, Plants, etc.— Take by weight, 

 verdigris, 2 parts, say drs. ; sal ammoniac, 1 dr. ; water, 30 drs. 



DiRECTioxs. — Rub the powders in a mortar with a little of the water at 

 first. Then adding all, bottle and keep corked up to prevent the ammonia 

 from escaping. Write upon the strips of zinc with a quill pen, shaking often 

 while writing. Some attach the zinc labels by cutting one end narrow, then 

 bend it around a limb. Others with copper wire. This ink makes a black 

 mark that will show iplainly, and also be durable. 



Pall Planting Best for Raspberries, Blackberries, Currants 

 C5-ooseberries, Grapes, etc.— The Fruit Recorder .teUs its readers that all 

 of the above-named fruit " set out in the fall, even in October, before the leaf 

 drops, will make double the growth and double the fruit the next year than 

 if planted in the spring." I recommend its early setting, that the fall rains 

 may settle the dirt nicely about the roots so they begin their growth with the 

 opening of spring, " even throwing out rootlets in the fall," mulching before 

 freezing with litter of any kind, manure, tan bark, sawdust, inverted sods, hay 

 or straw, — over each hillr— and they will come out all right in the spring, and 

 begin to grow as soon as frost is out, scarcely a plant failing. 



Remarks.— There isn't a doubt about it. And it is believed by the author 

 that fall planting of fruit trees must be found equally advantageous, in being 

 more likely to live and also to thrive better generally. And now, as we began 

 this department with " The Successful Farmer, "What he Does Not and "What 

 he Does, Applicable to All Business Men," we will close it with : 



The Happy Parmer, How He Does His Work, Equally Ap- 

 plicable to All Laborers, and to Everybody.— The following 

 thoughts have more reference to the spirit in which work is best done, than to 

 the way, physically, of doing it. Carlyle says : 



