I send you specimens of a method of using zinc labels for roses, herbaceous plants, etc. I have used them (zinc labels) for more than twenty years with great satisfaction on trees, and recently have tried them for roses, etc. by inserting the ends in the ground, but they are very liable to get covered up or displaced when cultivating the plants. This plan obviates that difficulty and makes a cheap and permanent label. The rods for support are of ¼inch iron 18 inches long, so tough that the loops can be turned cold. Having a supply of that kind of rods on hand, I make them myself and can complete fifty of them in an afternoon ready to receive the labels, which are obtained from the tinman at the cost of one dollar per hundred. These are made 5¼ inches long by 11/8Z inches wide, giving room for the name of the plant in large letters and leaving space for remarks on the class, color, date of planting, etc.

The stoutest fence wire would probably do instead of the ¼-inch rods I use. Rahway, N. J.

[The zinc labels are written on by an ordinary lead pencil. At first it is barely traced by the eye, but gets blacker with age, and is indelible. In orchard trees we have found the eye of the label to wear out very easily when in contact with the copper wire. If a brass eyelet could be punched into the zinc eye-hole, it would be an additional advantage we believe to the excellent hint of our correspondent. - Ed. G. M].