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Much must depend on position and the state of the plants ; strong 
specimens with a firm hold of the ground I think may be safely 
trusted, but to leave small plants exposed to the vicissitudes of 
the weather appears to be asking too much of them, such I would 
pot immediately and treat them like Auriculas. Seedling plants 
are usually more robust, and as the chances are scarce one in ten 
thousand of their being worth frame-room, they may be left to 
enjoy their present position. 
Florista. 
LITERARY NOTICE. 
Manual of Fruits. By Gray, Adams, and Hogg, Nurserymen, 
Brompton Park Nurseries, London. 
The improvement of the ordinary trade catalogue of nursery¬ 
men is a matter which the present state of horticulture impera¬ 
tively calls for; the mere enumeration of the plants on sale is 
not now sufficient, the trade-list should supply to the intending 
purchaser the means of discriminating, that his requirements 
may be met without exacting a previous acquaintance with the 
subject, or the chance of disappointment. The array of unmean¬ 
ing names, and the frequency of error which characterises the 
majority of the catalogues of the present day, render them objects 
of repugnance to a cultivated mind, and none but the enthusiastic 
devotees of Flora care to suffer the infliction of reading them. 
Why nurserymen permit this injury to their interests to exist we 
are at a loss to conceive, as its removal can only require a trifling 
exertion of the mind in planning a new list, and a careful revision 
of it in its progress through the press. In the catalogue before 
us, however, we are presented with a most pleasing contrast to 
the usual form ; it is confined to the enumeration of the fruit- 
trees grown in the Brompton Park Nurseries, the number of which 
includes every variety of note cultivated in British gardens; these 
are so fully, tersely, and, withal, so accurately described, that it 
seems next to impossible for misconception to arise. It should 
serve as a model in this respect to the other catalogues of the 
trade, and to every fruit-grower is indispensably necessary. 
