CHAPTER XVII. 



OECHARD BECOBD. 



COMPABATTVELY few persons start a record of the 

 names of their trees or their relative position in the 

 garden or orchard at the time of planting. Every- 

 body who plants trees intends to make such memo- 

 randa, but it is put off and finally forgotten, until 

 the labels fastened on by the nurseryman are de- 

 faced by exposure. Then the tree is without a name, 

 unless somebody recognizes the variety and satisfies 

 the owner, who is most anxious to learn the name of 

 the fruit and its date of ripening. 



The subjoined orchard record is very simple, and 

 will be found of practical value to the fruit grower. 



It is intended that each variety should be repre- 

 sented by a number (for instance, let the Bartlett be 

 represented by 1, Duchesse d'Angouleme by 2, 

 Seckel by 3, and so on), and, by affixing the names 

 of pears to the numbers designating the rows, we 

 accomplish a double purpose. Of course, whenever 

 the same number occurs in any other row, the vari- 

 ety is recognized at once by referring to the same 



