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LABELING 



LABURNUM 



prevent it from turning around, is 

 shown in Fig 1216. It can lie made 

 for about $2 per hundred, with the 

 face 3% X I'A inchs. 



There are many designs of expensive 

 cast or enameled metal or porcelain 

 labels, tliathave found little use iu this 

 CduiiMv. A l;il.i-l of stamped zinc of 

 I-:,mli-li i,i:ini.r,-..'ture (shown in IG, 

 I'i:.'. l^-'l'ii n nnu of the best garden 

 lalnU. I'.ir i.alieling specimen tree 

 trunks, a sheet of zinc or copper with 

 a little water-leilge 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 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 



and the metal folded on the 

 nservatory use is made of 

 nat surface, as pencil marks 



temper should be taken o 

 edges. A neat label for 

 white sheet-celluloid with 

 show very phiiuly on it. 



Hid ley describes (in "Principles of Fruit-growing") 

 llie tree Ial>els 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 

 ten on the outside of the double label, 

 in any other label, but it is also written 

 the inside to insure permanence. When 

 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, G, 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 



made wooden tag, taken 

 from an old tree in the 

 test orchard of the late 

 Charlea Downing, New- 

 burgh, N. Y. 8, thin cop- 

 per label, with the name 

 indented into the metal by 

 the use of a hard-poiuted 

 instrument. Some metal 

 labels are liable to tear out 

 at the hole when exposed 

 to winds. 9. common 1218. Paddock' 

 painted pine label used by yard label, 



nurserymen, and costing 

 (without the copper wire) about 35 cents per 

 thousand for the common size, which is 3}4 

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

 what at Cornel I, 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, commonzinc label ortally." 

 .K good vineyard label is shown in Fig. 1218, 

 described by Bailey as follows: "The figure is 

 I'addock'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 DoUchos. 



LABRADOR TEA. 



Ledu 



Is ot many patte 



LABURNUM (ancient Latinname). Legumi- 

 >iAs<e. Including Podocyfisus. Golden Chain. 

 Ornamental shrubs or small trees, with alter- 

 nate trifolioliate petioled Ivs., and yellowpapil- 

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

 dulous racemes, Z.alphutm is hardiest, i. fj(i- 

 (iciris is almost hardy iu Mass., while L. Cara- 

 nianicjimis tender. Theyare adapted forplant- 

 ing on rocky scopes or in borders of shrubber- 

 ies, when they should be allowed enough space 

 to show to the best advantage their grace- 

 ful, drooping racemes of golden fis., which con- 

 trast with the dark green foliage. They are 

 hardly ever attacked by insects or fungi. The 

 Ivs. fall late in autumn without changing color. 

 They thrive in any kind of well-drained soil, 

 includmg limestone, and grow as well in 



