CHAPTER XVII. 
ORCHARD RECORD. 
ComPARATIVELY few persons start a record of the 
names of their trees or their relative position in the 
garden or orchard at the time of planting. LEvery- 
body who plants trees intends to make such memo- 
randa, but it is put off and finally forgotten, until 
the labels fastened on by the nurseryman are de- 
faced by exposure. Then the tree is without a name, 
unless somebody recognizes the variety and satisfies 
the owner, who is most anxious to learn the name of 
the fruit and its date of ripening. 
The gubjoined orchard record is very simple, and 
will be found of practical value to the fruit grower. 
It is intended that each variety should be repre- 
sented by a number (for instance, let the Bartlett be 
represented by 1, Duchesse d’Angouléme by 2, 
Seckel by 3, and so on), and, by affixing the names 
of pears to the numbers designating the rows, we 
accomplish a double purpose. Of course, whenever 
the same number occurs in any other row, the vari- 
ety is recognized at once by referring to the same 
