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prevent it from turning around, is 

 shown in Fig 1210. It can be made 

 for about $2 per hundred, with the 

 face 3ii x 1% inchs. 



There are many designs of expensive 

 cast or enameled metal or porcelain 

 labels, that have found little use in this 

 country. A label of stamped zino of 

 English manufacture (shown in 10, 

 Fig. 1215) is one of the best garden 

 labels. For Labeling specimen tree 

 trunks, a sheet of zinc or copper with 

 a little water-ledge bent at the top, 

 painted, enameled black and lettered 

 in white, is about the best thing we 

 have. It should be secured with cop- 

 per tacks, and given occasional atten- 

 tion. (See No. 15.) The white bronze 

 tree tablets with letters cast in relief 

 have so far failed to secure general in- 12ie. A metal ear. 

 troduction. A series of thin sheet-cop- den label. 



per labels, to be written on with a stylus 

 against a soft, yielding surface, as a piece of leather, are 

 shown in Nos. 12, 13, 14. These have proved too frail for 

 exposed out-of-door use, but are very good for conserva- 

 tory plants, orchards, etc., though the inscription needs 

 rather close examination. In making copper labels, the 



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temper should be taken out and the metal folded on the 

 edges. A neat label for conservatory use is made of 

 white sheet-celluloid with a mat surface, as pencil marks 

 show very plainly on it. 



Bailey describes (in "Principles of Fruit-growing") 

 the tree labels shown in Fig. 1217. "1, 2, German labels, 

 made of glazed earthenware, with the name 

 colored blue and sunken. Strong copjier 

 wire, coiled, to allow of the growth of the 

 limb, holds the label to the tree. 3, Cornell 

 label, made of wood. 4, double wooden 

 hihfl. c<ii]si-<tiiig of two common wooden 

 lal.ils t:i-t..u,d together. The name is writ- 

 iiu on tlji- (iiiiside of the double label, as 

 in ;uiy otln r hibel, but it is also written on 

 tlio inside to insure permanence. When the 

 outsi.le writing is worn oflf, the label is 

 ofn-iii li .and tlie inside is still bright. 



The : 



is fa 



aed to the 



by 



the cut at the right. The label is 

 seen opened in the cut at the left. 

 5, 6, zinc labels, used at the New 

 York State Experiment Station, 

 Geneva. The wire is driven into 

 the tree, and the name is written 

 or printed on the zinc with black 

 paint. 7, common hand- 

 nade wooden tag, taken 

 rom an old tree in the 

 est orchard of the late 



■ urt'h, N. V. 8, thin cop- 

 >er iabtl, with the name 

 ndeiiticl int.. the metal by 

 lie use of a bard-pointed 

 nstrunieut. Some metal 

 abi-is are liable to tear out 

 It the hole when exposed 



9. c( 



painted pine label used by yard label. 



nurserymen, and costing 

 (witliout the copper wire) about 35 cents per 

 thousand for the common size, which is 3i4 

 inches long. 10, Lodeman's label, used some- 

 what at Cornell, consisting of a tag of sheet lead 

 securely fastened to a coiled brass wire. Tlie 

 wire is secured to the body of the tree by a 

 staple or screw-eye, and it is expected that the 

 wire will become imbedded in the trunk as the 

 tree grows. No. 11, commonzinc label ortally." 

 A good Tinevard label is shown in Fig. 1218, 

 described by Bailey as follows: "The figure is 

 Paddork's vineyard label (designed by W. Pad- 

 dock. State Experiment Station, Geneva, N.Y.). 

 The label is a strip of heavy zinc secured to a 

 stiff galvanized wire. This wire or shank is 

 provided with a hook at the lower end and a 

 half-hitch near its middle, so that it can be se- 

 curely ad.iusted to the wires of the trellis, hold 

 ing the label well above the foliage." 



S. C. Mason. 



LABLAB BEAN. See DoUchos. 



LABRADOR TEA. See Ledum. 



tnmn without changing color 

 L-y tlirive in any kind of well-drained soil, 

 ludiug limestone, and grow as well in 



