. Annals of horticulture in North America for the year ... : a witness of passing events and a record of progress. 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 Fig. 39. The seat, d, is 2^ feet long and made of 2-inch plank 1 footwide. — Geo. G. Jones, in Popular Gardening, 163. Label for Low Plants.—(Fig. 35.) The illustration showsa German device for labeling low plants. The label is madeof zinc. The face is given a couple of coats of black paintupon which, when dry, the name is wr
. Annals of horticulture in North America for the year ... : a witness of passing events and a record of progress. 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 Fig. 39. The seat, d, is 2^ feet long and made of 2-inch plank 1 footwide. — Geo. G. Jones, in Popular Gardening, 163. Label for Low Plants.—(Fig. 35.) The illustration showsa German device for labeling low plants. The label is madeof zinc. The face is given a couple of coats of black paintupon which, when dry, the name is written with a stub penor brush, in paint made of white lead and rectified varnish.—Pupular Gardening, ijj. Rural New-Yorker Label.—(Figs. 36, 37, 38.) Piecesof zinc, as in fig. 36, are secured by wire at the middle. The Tools and Conveniences of the Year. 379 names or memoranda are written upon all four faces, or at least upon theinside andoutside 37 showsa good formof memoran-da. The labelis folded ordoubled to-gether as in- fig. 38. Theoutside rec- CL ord lasts avear or two ; Fig. 40. when that is effaced, open thelabel and the inside will befound to be bright. (See An-nals for 1890, 267.)—RuralNew- Yorker, 102. Grafting-Machine.— (,
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