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JOUBNAL OF UORTrOULTUBE AND CtJTTAGE GARDENER. 



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WEEKLY CALENDAR. 



SEPT. 26— OCT. 2, 1867. 



Royal Hoi-ticnUnral Society, PromenndP. 



15 Sunday apteu Trinity. MicriAEL. 



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From nhsorvdtiona taken near London diirini; the last forty years, the ayor.icje day temprtratnro of tho week is 65.0'; and it** nis^hl 

 temperature 44.1'^. Tile greatest heat was 7U , on the 27tll, 1832 ; and the iovyest cold 17\ on the 2nd, 1853. The greatest fall of rain was 

 1.44 inch. 



CULTURE Oi' KOSES ON THE MANETTI 

 STOCK. 



N consequence of various ap- 

 plications I am about to 

 address a series of lectures 

 on Manetti Rose culture. 

 I do not propose to lecture 

 on the cultui-e of Briar 

 Roses. The worliS of Mr. Rivers, Mr. W. Paul, and I\Ir. 

 Cranston — three admii-able books — are sufficient for that 

 purpose. 



I will simply say, as regards Briar Roses, tliat they may 

 be creditably cultivated by experienced and attentive per- 

 sons in almost any soil, if expense be not ohjeeted to ; but 

 the proper soil for them is a deep, well-drained, unctuons 

 clay, or a veiy strong sandy loam, which so few persons 

 have. 



The Manetti stock is snited to any class of land — sandy, 

 chalky, gravelly, or clayey. In the clay soil it would re- 

 quire! but little manure: in the sandy, chalky, or gravelly 

 soil it would require far less manure than the Briar Rose, 

 or the Rose on its own roots. It is suitable for shrubberies, 

 dry soils, and places interfered with by shaile or tlie roots 

 of trees. In such a position here the plants have made 

 shoots (! and 7 feet long this summer. 



'J'he treatment of Roses on their own roots would be 

 slightly dilforent from that of JManetti Roses. AVith regard 

 to tlie former, there are these excellent points — namely, 

 when they arc carefully reared to maturity, their roots aud 

 wood are more tough aud hardy than in the case either 

 of the Briar Rose or the Manetti Rose ; and if their wood 

 is inferior or injured, it can be cut down to the stump in 

 tlie spriug. They require, however, when fresh-struck, 

 great care for two or three seasons at least. 



As I liave in ditl'creut periodicals written much on Roses 

 on the Manetti stock, it cannot be expected that I can say 

 much tliat is new, aud certainly I have nothing to with- 

 draw. I must, therefore, be excused if I reproduce some 

 of the matter before introduced to the public. Great mis- 

 apprehensions have existed in time past as to IManetli 

 Ro.ses, but these prejudices, arising from and eonlirming 

 ignorance, have been dying away gradually tor some years, 

 and converts conlinue coming in. In Ameriea and I'higland 

 the Manetti Rose is propagated by thousands — by millions 

 — in fact, llie nurseiymen in England cannot propagate it 

 sufficiently fast to supply the increasing demands of tlie 

 public. No doubt the prejudice against this stock at first 

 had some grounds, and tho grounds were these — the Rose 

 was worked too high on the stock, so that no one could 

 properly bury the whole of the stock for two inches over the 

 point of union, which is absolutely necessary. Now, how- 

 ever, either by grafting or budding low, the stock can be 



No. 889.-VOL XIII., New Sesies, 



buried without the root^ of tho Manetti being too far from 

 the surface, and the solar and atmospheric influences wliieh 

 are congenial to the roots of all trees. 



Willi regard to the inti-odaction of the Manetti stock 

 into this country about thirty-three years ago, Mr. Rivera 

 wrote to me as follows : — " It is just thirty years ago [the 

 date of his letter is .lanuary !)th, IwiU], that I received 

 one small rooted cutting of iVfanetti in a booksellers parcel 

 through Messrs. Longman & Co. Its brother, raised in 

 the same batch, came over with it, and was called Rosa 

 indica grandiilora. Our sort was called Rosa iudic-a ^la* 

 netti. Both were raised by Signor CrivelU, who dedicated 

 the latter to Signor Manetti, n,"ar Lago do Como. The 

 first-named was exactly like Manetti in leaves aud habit, 

 but not a cutting would gi-ow ; so, after some years, I de- 

 stroyed it, which I now regret. So highly is the Manetti 

 stock esteemed in the United States, that I liave sent 

 some hundreds of thousands there; aud there is an order 

 now in the house for fifty thousand more." Soon after this 

 Mr. Cranston wrote to me, and said — " I have a stock of 

 eighteen tliousand Manetti Roses : I wish I could procure 

 one hundred thousand stocks, I could sell the Roses with- 

 out difficulty." No doubt his stock is larger now, ami a-s 

 excellent as usual : and I hope he will devote the greater 

 portion of the nursery, which he proposes to occupy with 

 Roses, to those on the Manetti stock. 



I have always found tlie Manetti a suitable stock for all 

 \-igorous growers, except the Cloth of Gold, or dwarf and bad 

 growers. It is suited to all the summer Roses, to almost 

 all tho Hybrid Pcrpetuals, to Tea-scented Noisettes, and 

 to some of the Bourbons. For wall Roses, pillar Roses, and 

 lawn Roses it is an admirable stock. The Manetti Rose is 

 earlier than the Briar Rost> or the Rose on its own roots. 

 It is more continuous in blooming through the seascui ; and 

 it blooms later than either of the above, allowing for ex- 

 ceptions. In inferior lands it casts the blooms larger 

 and fuller in the centre tlian either the Briar or Roses on 

 their own roots. One tiling is certain, it is not fit for 

 standards of any lieight, because when exposed to sun the 

 skin of the stock hardens, and does not expand with the 

 gi-owth of the stock in an equal ratio : in a word, it be- 

 comes " hidebound." It is a triumphant stock for quick 

 pot ju-opagation : and Mr. Cranston prefers it for pot Rose 

 cultiv.atii)n. It is ea.sy of protection in severe winters : 

 the way of doing so will be shown hereafter. It enables 

 persons with inferior land to compete with those who have 

 ground of superior quality. Mr. Keynes's land is good, 

 but bv no means equal to' the Ileriford.<hire soil, n<ir is it 

 equal" to Mr. Tiley's and Mr. Turner's, and yet he lias 

 gained for vears niany and noble victories chiefly, but not 

 only, by Manetti Roses, as he is also a good grower of 

 Roses on the Briar. 



The Manetti Rose con be moved at almost any time in 

 the year with CAre. It can be taken from any luindr nur- 

 sery", and planted in August. Se|iteraber, or October, aud 

 established before the winter sets in. Tlirec of iny most 

 successful Manetti plantations at Rushton. by accident, 

 were planted tliree years following on the Idth of October. 

 I brought home from Blamlford on August 7th of th« 



No. OOl.-Vol.. XSXVIIl., Ow Sebiis. 



