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taken that these adornments are not set in 

 formal rows. The appearance of pretty yards 

 has been spoiled by brackets set on every post. 

 Let them be alternated or varied by a difference 

 in shape or size, or by a shelf-box or other 

 device. Nature makes variety, and we should 

 follow her rules if we would have perfect taste. 

 For vines there are many pretty arrangements ; 

 one I saw was a large hoop cut and each end 

 fastened to an upper window sill. Strings were 

 fastened to this at regular intervals and brought 

 together near the ground. Vines trained in this 

 way make a lovely window shade 



BUDDED ROSES. 



BY MRS. R. B. EDSON. 



It is the universal testimony of those in a posi- 

 tion to know the facts in the case, that there is a 

 great and rapidly increasing interest in the cul- 

 tivation of roses. The magnificent new Hybrid 

 Perpetuals are sufiicient excuse for any amount 

 of enthusiasm. But right here, at the very 

 threshold of rose culture, is a " lion in the 

 way." 



In the Editorial Notes, page 7, of the January 

 Monthly, I read tliat the Manetti Rose, once 

 popular as a stock for budding roses on, was 

 practically abandoned something like thirty 

 years ago ; or, to use the exact words, *' the force 

 of public opinion caused florists to utterly dis- 

 card it." 



Now I open EUwanger & Barry's Catalogue of 

 Select Roses for 1881 — and a most conscientious 

 and reliable catalogue it is — and I find that these 

 well known and skilled rose-growers say that 

 they grow them in about equal quantities on 

 their own roots and budded on Manetti. 



Then I find in Mr. Saul's catalogue the follow- 

 ing : "Our Roses are on their own roots, ex- 

 cept the newer sorts, and those which, from ex- 

 perience, we find do better budded. These we 

 furnish on Manetti." 



Mr. John B. Moore (the "Moore's Early" 

 grape man), of Concord, Mass., makes a specialty 

 of roses. That he grows fine ones, I can bear 

 personal witness, he being one of the chief ex- 

 hibitors of roses at the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society's June shows. The many '' first 

 prizes " awarded him by the committee, are a 

 substantial proof of their excellence. Indeed, I 

 was so pleased with his roses last June, that, in 

 the first flush of my enthusiasm, I wrote for his 

 catalogue. I wanted to get them near home, as 



expressage en small orders from a distance, often 

 exceeds the order itself. I had also seen his 

 roses and believed he knew how to grow rose 

 plants, if he could grow such fine roses. Then 

 I wanted them pot-grown, as everybody knows 

 that roses have strong constitutional objections 

 to being " pulled up by the roots." I opened the 

 catalogue ; everything was all right till I came — 

 O horror ! — to this : " Our roses are all budded 

 on Manetti." 



Now I submit, is not this thing an outrage on 

 poor, innocent and unoffending amateurs ? How 

 are they to decide when "doctors disagree?" 



I confess to a prejudice against budded roses, 

 and yet I had so much confidence in the authori- 

 ties named, that I was fast settling down into 

 the belief that, possibly, these practical rosarians 

 knew more about it than I ! But now comes the 

 MoxTHLY with the assertion that budding roses 

 on Manetti was driven to the wall a great many 

 years ago, by the " force of public opinion." 



All my old distrust is up in arms at once. 

 Surely it must have been a dreadfully disreputa- 

 ble practice to have caused such a result. I am 

 all at sea again — who will come to the rescue ? 

 Please, somebody, discuss this matter, pro and 

 con, that amateurs, desiring the best results from 

 their outlay, may no longer be in such a state of 

 lamentable ignorance in regard to the two 

 methods of propagation. 



[Almost all — perhaps all roses — grow better 

 and make finer flowers when budded on the 

 Manetti than when grown on their own roots. 

 This is as true as gospel. The trouble is from 

 the suckering. The Manetti rose-leaves and 

 shoots are very much like those of ordinary 

 roses, and they push out from the stock without 

 being observed. If they are not observed, all the 

 graft above the sprouts die. If one has the in- 

 telligence to discriminate and the time to watch 

 for, and take care of these suckers as soon as 

 they appear, there will be wonderful success with 

 these grafted roses. But nine out of every ten 

 people do not know, or if they know, neglect it 

 in time, and the result is that in one or two 

 years after planting, when the rose-lover looks 

 for his grand June show of rose flowers, he has 

 nothing but miserable Manetti buds for all his 

 trouble and expense. A quarter of a century 

 ago, before the last craze on Manetti died mis- 

 erably, it was no uncommon thing to go from 

 garden to garden and find nothing whatever but 

 Manetti plants, where people thought they had 

 choice roses. — Ed. G. M] 



