100 LABELS. 



fingers or a small pair of pinchers. These labels may be 

 cut and punched by a tinman at a cheap rate. 



Sheet tin may be used instead of zinc, using a sharp awl 

 to write the name, and being particular to cut through the 

 tin coating. Oxidation soon renders the letters distinct. 



Lead labels, (fig. 60,) stamped with type, and suspended 

 with copper wire, well twisted against the hole, to prevent 

 wearing by the motion of the wind, are very durable. 

 Fig. 61, shows the mode of stamping, by sliding the sheet 



1 lead between two plates of iron, 



H | a, b, screwed together, and setting 



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the types successively against the 



upper plate, #, and stamping one at 

 a time. The letters are thus kept 

 in a straight line. The imprinted 

 end of the sheet lead is then cut off, 

 and forms the label.* 



No person, who plants an orchard 

 or fruit garden, should depend 



wholly on labels, which may be lost off, to distinguish the 

 names of his trees. 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. 



* It is sometimes a matter of convenience to mark the names on specimens of the 

 fruit itself. This is quickly and permanently done by tracing the name with a blunt 

 ttick, or a pencil, pressing hard enough to indent the surface, but not to tear the 

 skin. It succeeds best on pears, the writing soon changing color and becoming 

 conspicuous. 



