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more beautiful or useful than some of the styles which 

 have lately come into use. One of the best we have seen 

 is an oval glass tube, about three inches long, closed at 

 the upper end, and made with a hole through which to 

 put a wire or twine, as in the common wooden tag. The 

 name of the pLant to wliich the label is to be attached is 

 printed upon a small strip of paper; this is rolled up and 

 inserted into the tube from the lower end ; afterward the 

 aperture is sealed up with v\'ax. 



The printed slips used in the labels may be cut from 

 any ordinary catalogue of plants. The labels may be 

 suspended upon the plants ; or if made five or six inches 

 long, they may be used for pot plants, and inserted in the 

 soil. Fig. 18 represents one of the sizes generally used 

 for hanging upon shrubby green-house plants. 



W^OOD LABELS. 



Small wooden tags or labels (as they called by both 

 names) are more extensively used than any other. They 

 were formerly made by liand, and the ordinary three-inch 

 label cost from one to two dollars per thousand ; but the 

 demand for this article has increased so rapidly of late that 

 it was found necessary to substitute machinery for hand- 

 labor, and this has been so successfully accomplished, 

 that the price of labels has been reduced more than one 

 Iialf in consequence. Besides the reduction in price, the 

 article furnished is far superior to that ma.de by the old 

 method. 



If greater durability is required than that of the natural 

 wood, it is a very easy matter to kyanize or soak the 



