298 A Cheap Tally Peg for Plants. 



tinuing in perfection two or three days ; and by the middle of 

 August it was eight feet high, and bushy in proportion, covered 

 with flowers from the ground to the top, some thousands being 

 expanded at one time, so that, at a distance, it appeared like 

 a white sheet. In this state it continued to the beginning of 

 the present month (November, 1827), when the flowers began 

 to open more sparingly as the nights became longer ; but it 

 still continues to open a few, and is quite covered with others 

 in a bud state, but those of course will not open. I intend 

 shortly to cut it down to the young shoots, which are spring- 

 ing up in abundance from the bottom, and which I expect will 

 produce me an equally fine plant for next year. Wishing 

 great success to your interesting Magazine, 



I am, dear Sir, &c. 

 No. 20. Camera Square, Chelsea, R. Sweet. 



November 20. 1827. 



PS. — I omitted to mention that the flowers of my plant 

 were double the size of those that are produced on weak 

 plants ; consequently nearly double the size of those repre- 

 sented in the figure of it in my British Flower-garden. I have 

 sent you a few seeds of my Alstroemerm hirtella, which has 

 ripened in my garden by the side of the Petmiz'a. You had 

 better sow them in a pot at once, and turn them out in a warm 

 border in spring. — R. S. 



Art. XX. A serviceable Tally Peg for Plants. By J. C. 



Sir, 

 In the last number of your Magazine you give the figure 

 of a tally peg invented by Mr. Murray of Glasgow. This peg, 

 however, though certainly very neat, would, if used generally 

 for flower beds, prove very expensive in large gardens. Hav- 

 ing a considerable collection of herbaceous plants, I have had 

 the tally cast, of which I now send you a specimen (fg. 105. 

 full size), and which I think both neat and serviceable. These 

 pegs were cast for me by Mr. Bayley of Cornhill, and cost 30s. 

 per cwt., each cwt. containing between 1 600 and 1 700 pegs. I 

 am induced to send you this statement, judging that many culti- 

 vators would be glad of so great a convenience at so very 

 moderate a price. These tallies, which I use for numbers 

 only, are painted white, and numbered in black, with oil colours, 

 which stand the wet extremely well. I have also seen them, 



