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nailing up of berry-boxes. " Upon a standard, a, which is a 

 piece of scantling 2}4 feet long, another piece 9 inches long, 

 b, is morticed and bolted. An iron plate, c, ^-inch thick, 

 screwed upon b, serves a good purpose in clinching nails. 



Fig. 39. 



The seat, d, is 2^ feet long and made of 2-inch plank 1 foot 

 wide." — Geo. G. Jones, in Popular Gardening, 163. 



Label for Low Plants. — (Fig. 35.) The illustration shows 

 a German device for labeling low plants. The label is made 

 of zinc. The face is given a couple of coats of black paint 

 upon which, when dry, the name is written with a stub pen 

 or brush, in paint made of white lead and rectified varnish. — 

 Pupular Gardening, ijj. 



Rural New-Yorker Label. — (Figs. 36, 37, 38.) Pieces 

 of zinc, as in fig. 36, are secured by wire at the middle. The 



