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APPENDIX. 



folding legs (p. 97, fig. 56,) by continuing the two main 

 bars to a point, which the more readily enables the operator 

 to thrust it up among the branches, and often enables 

 him to support himself by grasping this elevated point. 

 The legs turn at the hinges b, and are readily folded 

 up when the ladder is not in use. (Fig. 305.) 



Labels, p. 100. The annexed figure (306) represents 

 the mode of making these labels. 



Sticks or tallies at the ends of nursery rows, or labels 

 suspended on the successive trees of a row 

 of standards, may be durably numbered on 

 red cedar, after the following manner, to 

 correspond with a written register in a book. 

 Fig. 307 shows the mode of notching with a 

 knife, to indicate the ten figures. To pre- 

 vent mistakes by getting them inverted, they 



1 23 



6 7 



2 



Fig. 307. 



Fig. 306. 



Fig. 308, 



are always read downwards on 

 a stake, or from the loop of a 

 suspended label. The accom- 

 panying figure (308) exhibits a 

 label on a tree marked with the 

 number 47. 



Grafting large stocks, p, 119. Young 

 operators are sometimes puzzled to know 

 what to do with stocks which greatly exceed 

 the graft in size. In order that the line of 

 separation between the bark and wood may 

 coincide in both, the graft must be placed at 

 one side of the large stock a, sloped and 

 tongued for the reception of the graft b, their 

 union being represented by c. (Fig. 309.) 

 To facilitate the wrapping of the wax plas- 

 ters, one side and the upper point of the 

 stock are pared off with a knife, before the 

 two are joined, as shown by the dotted line. 



