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MODE OF LABELLING PLANTS. 
BY MR. R. BALL. 
{Extracted from the Irish Farmer's and Gardener's Magazine.) 
A very superior label for plants may be made by turning to account that 
hitherto time- wasting accomplishment called " transferring." The mode proposed 
is, to lay on the upper portion of a suitable slip of glass, a coat of transfer varnish, 
on which the name, &c., of a plant printed on paper and moistened is to be pressed 
with the finger (the printed side downwards). When the varnish is dry the paper 
is to be rubbed off gently with a damp cloth, leaving the printing attached to the 
glass, on which a strong coat of white oil paint is to be laid, and sprinkled with fine 
sand or powdered glass ; or another slip of glass similar to the first, painted on one 
side with white lead, may be cemented on it, when a label of surpassing distinctness 
and permanency will be produced. Any ordinary printed catalogue of plants may 
be made available for the purpose above stated. 
A FEW HINTS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF TERRESTRIAL 
ORCHIDEJE, WITH A SELECTION OF THE CHOICEST 
KINDS AT PRESENT IN CULTIVATION. 
The terrestrial species of Orchidese are by no means so numerous as the 
Epiphytes, and as they are not found in the same situations as the other, they are 
consequently subjected to different treatment, and have different habits. 
They are called terrestrial because they are invariably found in their natural 
habitats, either growing upon the ground, or in situations where they directly 
derive nourishment from the soil, which the epiphytes do not. 
This division of Orchideee may be separated, with regard to treatment, into 
four divisions. 1st. Those requiring the Stove, as all the kinds introduced from 
tropical countries. 2nd. Greenhouse kinds, as the species from the Cape of Good 
Hope, and other places with about the same temperature. 3rd. Frame hinds, 
being such as grow in the south of Europe, some parts of America, and other 
places of like temperature : and Hardy kinds, as many sorts from North America, 
the Old Continent, and such as are indigenous to this country. 
All the stove species in the appended list, require similar treatment to each 
