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opened and the inside is still bright. The label is 

 fastened to the tree by a tack or small nail, as 

 shown in 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 -made wooden tag, ta- 

 ken from an old tree in the test or- 

 chard of the late Charles Downing, 

 Newburgh, N. Y. 8, thin copper 

 label, with the name indented into 

 the metal by the use of a hard- 

 pointed instrument. Some metal 

 W ^ ^/, labels are apt to tear out at the 



hole when exposed to winds. 9, 

 common painted pine label used by 

 nurserymen, and costing (without 

 the copper wire) about 35 cents per 

 thousand, for the common size, 

 which is 3% inches long. 10, 



Fi S .47. Paddock's vineyard Lodeman ' s label> uged som ewhat 



at Cornell, consisting of a tag of 

 sheet lead securely fastened to a coiled brass wire. 

 The 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, common zinc label or tally, de- 

 scribed on page 308. Fig. 47 is Paddock's vine- 



