. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. GARDEN TOOLS. e^ determined by the measuring tape. Sometimes we have had to employ a dumpy level to regulate the flow of water, and a spirit level must be considered as indispensable in every gentleman's garden. Besides all these ordinary gardener's tools, I supply to my gardener a sledge-hammer, common hammer, files, mallet, chisels, gimlets, screw- drivers, pincers, wire-cutters, centre-bits, and plane. He also has the use of glazier's diamond, putty-knife, and materi
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. GARDEN TOOLS. e^ determined by the measuring tape. Sometimes we have had to employ a dumpy level to regulate the flow of water, and a spirit level must be considered as indispensable in every gentleman's garden. Besides all these ordinary gardener's tools, I supply to my gardener a sledge-hammer, common hammer, files, mallet, chisels, gimlets, screw- drivers, pincers, wire-cutters, centre-bits, and plane. He also has the use of glazier's diamond, putty-knife, and materials for painting. Slight repairs can thus be immediately effected without the waste of time in having recourse to the village carpenter. It is of very little profit to have a collection of trees without having them carefully and enduringly labelled. The direct system is to place the name on the tree. Various plans of writing on metal have been suggested, but they last but for a short period. I have tried a system of electrotype labels, but had some difficulty in getting them made regularly. A system has been adopted of stereotype; but at length I think that I have hit upon a plan to be ever hereafter used. The names are set up in type in the ordinary way, when instead of printing a sheet of paper a sheet of lead is indented by passing it through the press. The sheet of names is then cut up by a pair of scissors, the end is turned over, and a hole punched by the tool used by shoemakers to punch button-holes. When the label is finished Fig. 74. Fig. 75. it is attached to the tree by a copper wire (fig. 74), and there is little fear but that these indented labels will endure from generation to generation. Where we have not these indented labels, numbers having reference to a book may take their place. A simple plan of notation in use by horticulturists is figured by Thompson (fig. 75). It constitutes a tally, which may be made by the gardener at once. I never j^^g. used this plan
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