270 Horticultural Implements, Appliances, etc. 



Trucks fok Tubs or very large Pots.— This very handy- 

 little truck is what the French use for moving orange tubs, &c. 

 It would be impossible to find anytliing more useful in its way. I 



Fig. 85. 



have seen the gardeners actually running with big specimens on 

 them. The pot or tub is caught by the little iron feet, then thrown 

 on its side and tied firmly if a long distance ha* to be traversed. 



The Numeroteur. — Numbering instead of labelling is now 

 adopted in so many gardens and nurseries, that the making 

 widely known of this useful instrument cannot fail to be useful. 

 The following description of it originally appeared in the Gardener s 

 Chronicle : — " Horticulture is a science so vast, and embraces sub- 

 jects so different, that however good a man's memory may be it is 

 insufficient, and hence it becomes necessary to give it mechanical 

 aid. Among the means employed are tickets or labels written upon 

 parchment or paper, or small pieces of wood, &c. ; but these are 

 soon effaced, and are very liable to get lost or displaced. A very 

 good plan frequently adopted consists in the use of small bands of 

 lead, which are rolled round the stems or branches of the plants. 

 Upon this lead a number is marked, corresponding with a catalogue, 

 in which the name and any particular remarks are entered. This 

 method is sure ; but to carry it out several things are necessary. 

 First there is wanted a series of numbers from i to 10, or rather 

 from I to 9, the zero, combined with other figures, making the 

 numbers 10, 20, 100, &c. Then this series of numbers must be 

 fixed upon a block of wood, and tlie figures have to be impressed 



