Label all your ornamental trees, plants and varieties of fruit. Do it now, and do it durably.

It will save endless confusion and trouble of reference to a chart. The best as well as cheapest label, as suggested by a Tribune correspondent is zinc, with copper or brass wire, and the name written with a common lead pencil. I have such now in my orchards, some two years old, that are as legible to-day as when first hung on the trees. All that is necessary when consulting these marks is to merely apply a little moisture to the surface, and the writing becomes at once black, and is readily deciphered. There is some danger in the wires rubbing out the hole in the label. I obviate this partially by punching the hole in the center of the label, which prevents an excess of swaying in the wind. Labels for small fruits or plants must receive two good coats of paint, and then dip them in a pot of hot gas-tar, about as deep as they should go in the soil. When ready for use, apply a thin coat of paint over the side intended to be written upon, and while fresh, with the aid of a rather hard lead pencil, write the name. We thus have a distinguishing mark that will not decay under the soil for at least ten years, and will withstand the action of the weather for very nearly as long.

The ordinary wire label attached to trees that have been procured from the nurseries, will in a short time "cut in" through the bark of the trunk or branch to which it is fastened, and thus soon destroy the same; therefore always remove these at once, and replace with the zinc label aforesaid, being careful at the same time to allow plenty of room for the branch to expand before the wire shall clasp it tightly.