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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
Souvenir de la Mahnaison was unequal. New roses were below 
the mark. The best appeared to be Abbe Bramerel, flowers of the 
Eugene Appert class, but superior ; Baron de Bonstetten, after Mon- 
sieur Boncenne ; Baronne L. Uxhull, carmine rose ; Etienne Level, 
after Victor Verdier ; Lyonnais, pink ; Prince Stirhy, somewhat 
like Mdlle. E. Verdier or La France, but a dilFerent shade of colour. 
Annie Laxton struck us as being no improvement on kinds we have 
enough of. Messrs. Paul and Son sent a new hybrid assimilated to 
the teas. From the wood it appears of a climbing habit : we must 
see more of it before pronouncing a definite opinion upon its merits. 
The same firm put up a pretty collection of convenient sized pot- 
roses. We have a shrewd suspicion that many of the best blooms 
upon the tables were cut from similar plants. 
THE MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT-HOUSES IN AUTUMN. 
BY WILLIAM COLE, 
Head Gardener, Ealing Park, Middlesex. 
HE management of fruit trees, grown under glass, is 
exceedingly simple after the crops have been gathered, 
but they must not, as is so frequently done, be left to 
take care of themselves from the time of the crops 
reaching maturity until the trees are pruned in the 
winter. The tree, it should be understood, has only done a portion 
of its allotted work when its crop is brought to maturity, for it has 
to produce a supply of fruit-bearing wood for next year, and it can 
only do this when maintained in a thriving condition by a proper 
system of management. 
In the management of fruit trees, such as the peach, nectarine, 
and plum, the main essentials are to keep them properly supplied 
with water at the root, and the foliage clean by giving them a 
thorough washing by means of the garden-engine or syringe occa- 
sionally. Unless this is done, the foliage will become infested with 
red spider, and fall off prematurely, and the flower-buds be im- 
perfectly formed in consequence. Trees in pots should, for the 
purpose of reducing the labour as much as possible, be moved to an 
open position out of doors, and loose material of some kind packed 
about the pots to prevent the too rapid evaporation of the moisture 
from the soil. They will require watering, of course, but the night 
dews and the rains will render syringing overhead well-nigh un- 
necessary. Trees planted out must be exposed as fully as possible 
by opening all the ventilators and doors to the fullest extent ; and 
in all cases where the roofs are formed of movable sashes, they should 
be taken off, and put on again about the end of November. The 
borders must be kept in a nice moist condition, for even when the 
trees are perfectly at rest the soil must not be allowed to become 
dust-dry. If the trees appear to be growing with too great a degree 
of vigour, they may be checked by keeping the border in a drier 
