FOREIGN NOTICES. 



The Manettii Rose Stock. — The following | 

 letter from Mr. Appleby, of York, will perhaps 

 gave you a little labor; it is all true. 



■ When vo'.i were here, in September last, you 

 requested roe to send you an account of my suc- 

 cess with the Rnsi .Manettii as a stock for roses 

 generally. I got a few (I believe about 20) from 

 you about four years ago, and having great faith 

 in what you said respecting its capabilities, I was 

 determined to give it a fair trial, and accordingly 

 I endeavored to make the most of it. I planted 

 them out as stools, and the following winter I 

 took the crop of cuttings and planted them in the 

 usual manner, and I am not aware that I lost one 

 of them. Those I also planted out as stools, and 

 the crop of cuttings this time was planted in 

 rows 18 inches apart and 6 inches in the row. 

 This was in the month of March, 1847, and in 

 August following they were all fit for budding. 

 I say all, because I do not think that ten in a 

 hundred died, although they were fully exposed to 

 the weather in an open quarter. Some of these 

 were budded as late as the last week in Septem- 

 ber, and still they took well generally. They 

 broke freely in the spring following, and by the 

 autumn many of them were as high as myself. 

 which quite delighted me, fur I had never seen 

 anything in rose culture like them. I now valued 

 Manettii cuttings like gold, and I ordered my 

 men not to threw away an inch that was likely to 

 make a plant. In the spring of 1^4S [ was ena- 

 bled to make a tolerably good plantation of them; 

 and although they were planted late (I believe in 

 the beginning of April,.) and the season set in dry, 

 I nevertheless lost but few of them ; but they were 

 late in getting hold of the ground, and I did not 

 get them budded until the end of September, still 

 the buds took well as before, and you weje your- 

 self a witness to the progress they have made. 

 There arc many sorts amongst them that I could 

 never get to thrive — in fact, scarcely to exisl — 

 upon the briar, that are now (in one year) from 

 •3 to 4 feet bigfi, and strong in proportion; and 

 others (that are free growers) I have 6 feet high, 

 with from 6 to 12 shoots from each bud. I will 

 here enumerate a few sorts that are known to be 

 bad growers upon the briar, and state the height 

 which they have attained in one season. I will 

 begin with Eblouissante de la Queue (Gal..) 

 grafted in April last, now 3 feet high and strong; 

 Chateaubriand (Damask.) also grafted at the 

 same time, 3 feet; Pcrle des Panaches (Gal.,) 

 budded in September, 1848. now from 3 to 4 feet; 

 Tricolor de Flandres (Gal.,) budded same time, 

 3 to 4 feet; Cynthie (Gal.,) budded same time, 

 2 feet; La Cherie (Damask,) budded same time, 

 2 feet; Crimson Perpetual, budded same time, 3 



feet; Rivers (LafTay's,) same time, 4 feet, and 

 many others of similar habit of growth have made 

 the same progress. Then, of stronger growing 

 sorts, the following (which were all budded in 

 September, 1848.) are now respectively the 

 heights quoted, viz.: Bourbon (Splendens,) 5 feet; 

 Comte Plater, 6 feet, very strong; Diane de Poi- 

 tiers, 6 feet; Madame Stoltz, 4 feet; Dombrow- 

 ski, 5 feet; Moss Laneii, 5 feet, and some of 

 them with a dozen shoots from one bud; Do. Lan- 

 cel, 4 feet; Do. Louis Colet, 4 feet; Do. White 

 Bath, 4 feet; Do. Blush, 5 feet; Do. Crimson, 5 

 feet; Do. Malvina, 5 feet; Do. Moussue Partout, 

 5 feet; Do. Do. Presque Partout, 5 feet; Do. 

 Do. Metz, 5 feet; Comte de Flandres (Gal.) and 

 Spotted Provence, 5 feet; and in Bourbons. I 

 have Acidalie, 3 to 4 feet; Desgaches, Cardinal 

 Fesch, and Madame Nerard, B. Queen, and Anne 

 Beluse, 2 feet; (these have been in bloom fron. 

 last May, and are still covered with buds and 

 bloom;) Princcsse Clementine, Emilie Courtier, 

 and several others are from 2 to 3 feet, and have 

 been constantly in bloom all summer. In the Hy- 

 brid Perpetuals I have Robin Hood, 3 to 4 feet, 

 and complete bushes; Cornet, 5 feet, very strong; 

 Sidonie, 4 feet, and most robust. Every plant, if 

 standing singly, would have the appearance (in 

 size) of a large Dahlia plant at this season of the 

 year. Geant des Batailles would have been quite 

 as large had they not been cut down for buds. 

 Baronne Prevost, Mrs. Elliot, Duchess of Suther- 

 land, La Reine, Madame Laffay, Wra. Jesse, and 

 several others are all similar plants; and Jaune 

 Desprez, with some of the new Prairie Roses 

 budded on this stock are 10 feet high in one sea- 

 son. The quarters of stocks which you saw 

 (newly budded) when you w r ere here in Septem- 

 ber, were all planted in March last, and are now 

 from 3 to 4 feet high, and many of them an inch 

 in circumference. They are budded with all the 

 best sorts of roses; and I have especially endea- 

 vored to get those sorts worked upon them that 

 have, usually been bad growers (though some of 

 the best roses,) and of which I could never get 

 any stock, and I have no doubt but the result will 

 be to my satisfaction. Another year I intend to 

 bud those stocks with Bourbons, Hybrid Perpetu- 

 als, Chinas, &e., from 1 foot to 3 feet high, as 

 dwarf standards; and I feel confident they will 

 form beautiful heads. So confident am I of the 

 Superiority of the Rosa Manettii over every other 

 stock for roses, that I shall never again plant any- 

 other, excepting for full sized standards. All 

 other stocks, in my light sandy soil, throw out 

 quantities of suckers, which are constantly rob- 

 bing the bud of its support, to say nothing of the 

 labor they occasion to get rid of them ; but this 



