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General Notices; 



New Tallies for naming Plants. — Sir, Among the various tallies for 

 marking plants, recommended in your Gardener's Magazine, I have not met 

 with one that will give a stranger the information he might require without 

 recourse to books. A mode has occurred to me which, in the outset, 

 embraces many of the requisites, but which, I doubt not, may be materially 

 improved by persons better versed than myself in the subject ; but, such as 

 the invention is, you are welcome to give it publicity if you think it deserv- 

 ing. The tally is made of iron, and, for pots in houses not exposed to 

 severe weather, in earthenware. 



The iron tally consists of a small frame of iron, with a foot to support 

 it (fig. 59.) *, in which a piece of glass (fig. 60.) is fixed, and another piece 

 (fig. 61.) goes into the same groove behind, or, in place of it, a piece of 

 copper (fig. 62.), and is movable. Between the two is placed a strip of 

 folded paper (fig. 63.), having the following abbreviations printed : — No., 



class, order, natural family, native of, sown, cutting, planted, grafted, budded> 

 annual, biennial, perennial ; and through the outside piece of glass in front 

 of the tally is seen the name written, and by turning to the back you see 

 noticed the duration of the plant. If further information is wanted, then, 

 by taking out a piece of wire (fig. 64.), fixed perpendicularly through two 



* All the figures in this article are half the true size. 



