The First Fifty Years of the Arnold Arboretum (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The First Fifty Years of the Arnold ArboretumTo a branch of every important plant in the Arboretum is attached a small metal label on which the name, origin and card catalogue number of the plant is stamped with raised letters. These labels are to preserve records and not for public use. For the instruction of visitors zinc labels six inches long and four inches wide painted brown with their Latin and English names and their native country in black letters are fastened with copper nails to the trunks of large trees at about the height of the eye. Small trees and large shrubs are furnished with Oblong wooden labels about eight inches long painted white with black letters and hung from a branch in a conspicuous position, metal labels of about the same size as the trunk labels and raised a few inches above the surface of the ground are placed before the plants in the general shrub collection.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.