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be legible for a year or more. If the stake is first 

 given a coat of white paint, and the writing is done 

 with an ordinary black soft lead pencil before the 

 paint is quite dry, the writing will continue plain for 

 a much longer period. If the paint is allowed to dry 

 thoroughly, and a second thin coat is then applied and 

 the writing done in an hour or so, both the stake and 

 the writing will last for years. 



A more satisfactory label is a metal one with the 

 name embossed. Such a label, aluminum, having a 

 hole in each end, with copper wire suitable for at- 

 taching to rod or stake is offered by the Movilla 

 Gardens, Haverford, Pa., at the rate of one dollar for 

 twenty-five. A similar label of zinc is offered by 

 Mr. Hunter Filbert, Holmes, Pa., at three cents each. 



Stakes, however, may be pulled up, thrown out 

 by frost, or broken off, and it is therefore advisable 

 to make and preserve a plot of the garden, and mark 

 on it the location and name of each variety. (Blank 

 pages for this purpose follow Chapter XIV.) 



