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For marking trees or grafts, a small tally, three-quarters 

 of an inch wide by three inches long, notched at one end 

 for attaching the wire, is commonly used. The name of 

 the variety should be marked on it with a lead pencil, 

 immtdiately after the tally has been brushed over with a 

 thin coat of white lead. If marked while the paint is wet, 

 it can be read as long as the tally lasts ; otherwise it will 

 soon be effaced. 



Another kind is made, about six or eight inches long by 

 an inch wide, of the same material, and marked in the 

 same manner, to be stuck in the beds of flowers and veg- 

 etables, to mark the different varieties. Zinc labels will 

 last for ever. They may be cut in any desired shape out 

 of sheet zinc. Write on it with an ink made of two parts 

 fine verdigris, two sal ammoniac, one lampblack. After 

 this is made fine in a mortar, add twenty parts water; 

 bottle and shake it occasionally some days before using. 

 It will keep for years, if tl>e bottle is kept cork down- 

 ward, to prevent the ammonia from escaping. The labels 

 should be fastened to the limbs with a stout wire. 



rOLDIKG-LADSEBS. 



Folding-Ladders are very convenient in gathering fruit. 

 The rounds are fastened by pivots at the ends on which 

 they turn, and when the ladder is folded up, they lie in 

 grooves made in the side-pieces. 



