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LABELING 



LABURNUM 



prevent it from turning around, is 

 shown in Fig 1216. It can be made 

 for about $2 per hundred, with the 

 face 3% 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 zinc of 

 English manufacture (shown in 16, 

 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- 1216. A metal gar. 

 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 



1218. Paddock's vine 

 yard label. 



1217. Tree labels of many patterns. 



temper should be taken out and the metal folded on th 

 edges. A neat label for conservatory use is made o 

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

 show very plainly on it. 



Bailey describes (in "Principles of Fruit- grow ing" 

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

 made of glazed earthenware, with the name 

 colored blue and sunken. Strong copper 

 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 

 label, consisting of two common wooden 

 labels fastened together. The name is writ- 

 ten on the outside of the double label, as 

 in any other label, but it is also written on 

 the inside to insure permanence. When the 

 outside writing is worn off, the label 

 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, taken 

 from an old tree in the 

 test orchard of the late 

 Charles Downing, New- 

 burgh, N. Y. 8, thin cop- 

 per label, with the name 

 indented into the metal by 

 the use of a hard-pointed 

 instrument. Some metal 

 labels are liable 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, Lodeman's label, used some- 

 what at Cornell, consisting of a tag of sheet lead 

 securely fastened to a coiled bi*ass 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." 

 A good vineyard label is shown in Fig. 12*18, 

 described by Bailey as follows : "The figure is 

 Paddock'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 adjusted to the wires of the trellis, hold 

 ing the label well above the foliage." 



S. C. MASON 

 LABLAB BEAN. See DolicJios. 



LABRADOR TEA. See Ledum. 



LABURNUM (ancient Latin name). 

 twsce. Including Podocytisus. GOLDEN CHAIN. 

 Ornamental shrubs or small trees, with alter- 

 nate trifolioliate petioled Ivs., and yellow papil- 

 ionaceous, showy fls. in many-fld., usually pen- 

 dulous racemes, L.alpinum is hardiest, L. vul- 

 garis is almost hardy in Mass., while L, Cara- 

 manicum is tender. They are adapted for plant- 

 ing on rocky slopes or in borders of shrub" 

 ies, when they should be allowed enough 

 to show to the best advantage their 

 ful, drooping racemes of golden fls., which 

 trast with the dark green foliage. They 

 hardly ever attacked by insects or fungi 

 Ivs. fall late in autumn without changing color. 

 They thrive in any kind of well-drained soil, 

 including limestone, and grow as well in 





