312 The Principles of Fruit-growing. 
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 eut at the left. 5, 
6, zine 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 zine with black paint. 7, 
common hand-made wooden tag, ta- 
oe ken from an old tree in the test or- 
wiles paz chard of the late Charles Downing, 
CS 3 a Newburgh, N. Y. 8, thin. copper 
A nel ~~ label, with the name indented into 
\v the metal by the use of a hard- 
St 27 pointed instrument. Some metal 
4 labels are apt to tear out at the 
j 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, 
une sss aaa a Lodeman’s label, used somewhat 
at Cornell, 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, common zine label or tally, de- 
scribed on page 308. Fig. 47 is Paddock’s vine- 
