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Preparing the Beds: Printed Wooden Labels Plain

Copper Labels These are made of light sheet copper, eyeleted and wired ready to use as soon as the name of the plant is inscribed. The copper labels are very light, and are therefore most suitable for hanging on the branches of your roses in a conspicuous place, not to be disturbed until you begin your pruning.

Then, if necessary, remove them to some other part of the plant not in danger from your shears. But any type of label that must be wired on the bush may constrict and check the life of the stem or branch on which it hangs. Therefore, a better way of @ LABELING to use these copper labels is to suspend them on a stout wire stake alongside the plant, so that no removing will be necessary unless the rose is being transplanted to some other part of your garden, when, of course, the label should go along with it. This shape of label is now available in celluloid faced with perfectly transparent mica. (See right-hand cut at bottom of page 22.) Plain or Printed Wooden Labels Plain or printed wooden labels, similar in size and shape to the two illustrated on page 22, may be attached to an upright iron stake (such as is here shown). This is the scheme followed by Capt. Geo.

C. Thomas in his noteworthy garden near Philadelphia. Furthermore, upon the same stake, with Garden the name label, he hangs a plain wooden label which is used throughout the season on which to mark the number of roses harvested from that bush each time one or more is cut. Such a plan, faithfully followed, makes an invaluable record for any careful rose-grower.