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METHODS OF NAMING AND NUMBERING PLANTS. 



In gardens or garden scenery where accuracy and intelligence are aimed at, all the less 

 common plants, ligneous and herbaceous, and all the varieties of fruits, should have their 

 names affixed to them ; with the addition of their native countrj', year of introduction if 

 exotic, and natural order. Larch, oak, and yew are the most durable timbers for forming 

 tallies on which to write or paint these names. The cheapest and best description of cast- 

 iron tally is that of INIr. Stuart Murray {Gard. Mag. vol. iii. p. 29.), the next best tha 

 used in the garden of the Horticultural Society. ( Gard. Mag. vol. vi. p. •^07. ) For trees, 

 shrubs, and large plants, the names may be painted on the ends of bricks, as in Messrs. 

 Loddiges's arboretum ; or, what is better, there are panelled bricks in imitation of Stuart 

 Murray's tally, and earthenware tallies with panels, and with the names impressed by t}pes 

 on the clay before burning, manufactured by Peake of Tunstall near Newcastle under Lyne, 

 and by Allardyce of Clay Hills near Aberdeen. (Gard. Mag. vol, vi. p. 399.) 



Where plants cannot be named, they should have numbers affixed to them referring to a 

 catalogue ; and that these numbers may be generally understood, the common numerals 

 should be made use of. These may be painted on wood, iron, or earthenware tallies. But 

 as the common numerals require the use of the pen or pencil, gardeners have devised signs 

 for them which may be readily cut with the knife on sticks. 



seton's mode of cutting nujibers on sticks 

 Is much the simplest, and at the same time the most comprehensive. The signs made 

 use of are as under : — 



1 23 45 67 890 



The advantages of these marks over those in common use are, that they are shorter and 

 more easily made by single distinct cuts ; and that no number, however high, requires more 

 marks than it would require figures written with a pen. The only way in w hich the me- 

 mory is apt to misgive, in this scheme, is by confounding / and \, ^ and N, A V» 

 with each other, as a child would confound the figures G and 9 ; but this shght incon- 

 venience will be remedied by the following key, which may be easily borne in the mind. 

 Let us recollect that, in writing, we naturally draw a stroke from the right at top, to the 

 left at bottom, thus /, and not in the opposite direction, thus \ : now, in all the above 

 numbers wliich differ from each other in the direction of the diagonal line, that wliich is 

 in the direction usual in writinff precedes the otlier, thus / \ ^ N /, i\; the other two, 



A and V y ^^ill not be confounded, on recollecting tliat V "s the usual numeral letter for five. 



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