The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ds as if it were difiicultand complicated, becomes in practice the simplestthing in the world. Common round bar-iron, three-eighths of an inch in diameter, is cut obliquely intolengths of 10 inches, and pierced with an eye i inchfrom one end, and dipped when red-hot into these pegs, which weigh about 4 oz., I pay 50^.per 1000, but think they might he had for less. ThenI have Hat wooden suspending labels pierced at eachend, for which I pay 4^. 61/. per 1000 ; through thetwo eyes S inches of
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ds as if it were difiicultand complicated, becomes in practice the simplestthing in the world. Common round bar-iron, three-eighths of an inch in diameter, is cut obliquely intolengths of 10 inches, and pierced with an eye i inchfrom one end, and dipped when red-hot into these pegs, which weigh about 4 oz., I pay 50^.per 1000, but think they might he had for less. ThenI have Hat wooden suspending labels pierced at eachend, for which I pay 4^. 61/. per 1000 ; through thetwo eyes S inches of pliant wire is passed for fasten-ing the label to the iron pin. These are upon thewhole the most satisfactory labels I have yet cost 5^. 6d. per 100, but the iron pin—nine-tenths of the cost—is indestructible. The label iseasily and quickly renewed, .and will last when sus-pended for many years. Not one has been ejectedfrom the ground this winter, and if kicked over theyare not hurt, and easily set up again. It is true theyare heavy to carry about, but I keep a stock of the. Fir,. 45.—A13IES SUIiALPINA. {SEE P. 236.) the full benefit of all past experience. I assume thatin all mixed collections of plants a large number oflabels is necessary. In my garden, which is of mode-rate size, I label nothing which can be recognised atall times of the year without a label, and yet I havefully 10,000 labels in constant use. Labels should be(i) cheap, (2) durable, (3) indelible, (4) portable, (5)markable with a common lead-pencil, (6) not liableto be ejected by frost, or {7) broken by a kick. Those who have plenty of Hazel trees at hand willfind Hazel rods, three-quarters of an inch in diameter,cut into lengths of about 10 inches, with a horizontalslice cutting into 4 inches from the upper end, andmade by a single cut of a knife, to take the paint forwriting, in many ways better and cheaper than thecommon flat labels. They last three times as long ormore if the lower end is
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