Implements, etc. 



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account thin tin plate is better than thick. The coil should pass 

 around but once, or it will not give way free.y to the increase of 

 growth. 



Any tin worker will cut them of scrap or refuse plate for about 

 ten or fifteen cents per hundred. 



Lead labels, in the form of those represented in Fig. 150, stamped 

 with type, and suspended with copper wire, well twisted against the 

 hole, to prevent wearing by the motion of the wind, are very dura- 

 ble. Fig. 1 54 shows the mode of stamping, by sliding the sheet- 

 lead between two plates of iron, A, B, screwed together, and setting 

 the types successively against the upper plate, A, and stamping one 

 at a time. The letters are thus kept in a straight line. The im- 

 printed end of the sheet-lead is then cut off, and forms the label.* 



Fig. 154. 



No person who plants an orchard or fruit- 

 garden, should depend for distinguishing the 

 names of his trees wholly on labels, which 

 may be lost off. The rows, and the kinds in 



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Fig. 156. 



Fig. 155- 



each row, should be registered in successive order, in a book 

 kept for the purpose. This will facilitate the replacement of any 

 lost label. 



Sticks or tallies at the ends of nursery rows, or labels suspended 



* 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 stick, 

 or a pencil, pressing hard enough to indent the surface, but not to tear the skin. It suc- 

 ceeds best on pears, the writing soon changing color and becoming conspicuous. 



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