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Tallies employed at Brasted ParJc. 



The tally marked Beurre Spence {Jig. 42.) has two blank 

 sides, which I have marked a b ; upon these sides may be 

 written the Linnean classification, the botanic name, synonymes, 

 or the character of the fruit, whichever the gardener may 

 think most conducive to the attainment of scientific know- 

 ledge. The figures tt on the tally Magnohac^^ {Jig. 43.), 

 refer to the name in Sweet's Hortus Brit., 2 being the second 

 genus (Magn6b«), and 11 being the eleventh species, viz. 

 Magnolm conspicua. Likewise, as to the tally jBoragineae 

 {Jg. 44.), by looking at the natural order ^oragineae, it will 

 be seen that the third genus and eleventh species is iitho- 

 spermum pulchrum. This practice of numbering the genera 

 and species, and writing the natural order on the tally, instead 

 of the name of the plant, I find an excellent plan for fixing 

 in the memory the natural order to which the plants so num- 

 bered belong ; and 1 recommend it to every young gardener 



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