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JOURNAIi OP HOBTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENEB. 



[ September 86, 1867. 



present year 288 Manetti Eoses, they are all alive now (Sep- 

 tember 13th), and by September 4th I pointed out to the Eev. 

 Robert Price, my clergyman, two well-formed buds on Louise 

 Margntt n. I have removed twelve Prince Camille de Kohan, 

 six Vicimte Vigier, and six Due de Cazes with their new 

 foliage nd fresh-struck roots. They have, therefore, had two 

 removals between August 7th and September 13th. On the 

 •9th of August I planted seventy-nine more, and they are doing 

 welL 



The Manetti stock pumps up such tides of sap, and is so 

 energetic, that in the autumn it brings its blooms to perfection 

 much sooner than the comparatively sluggish Briar or the Rose 

 on its own roots. The Briar Rose has three vulnerable points 

 — the roots, the stock, and the head ; but the Manetti Rose has 

 only two points of attack, both easily defended— namely, the 

 loots and the head. The Briar casts its suckers from the roots, 

 but the Manetti Rose from the stock (rarely from the roots), the 

 remedy for which will be pointed out hereafter. The Manetti 

 Bose may be recovered when sick and scarcely alive : such was 

 the case with Carl Coiirs this spring ; but a Briar Rose rarely 

 recovers ; if it does not go forward it never remains stationary, 

 bat declines more or less slowly towards death. Mr. Gill made 

 great eomplants of the mischief done to his Briars and Briar 

 Roses last winter. In respect to Carl Gc^ers — a small pot plant 

 wintered in my vinery — it was so nearly dead that I should 

 have thrown it away had not my man said, " There is a little 

 green in it." I cut it down to within an inch of where he said 

 it was green, and planted it under my south wall, covering it 

 all over with earth like a molehill. I then watered it, and left 

 it for dead ! It sprang up in due time, is a nice plant now, 

 and has given me two series of flat, large, crimson purple 

 flowers. 



The rest of the Manetti Rose is but short — from one to two 

 months, never more than three months. It produces so many 

 buds that I never trouble myself to kill the bud-worm. The 

 Manetti Rose may be pruned in winter, or in any month from 

 January to May. You may let it form all its branches and 

 bads, and after the bnd-worm has done its mischief you may 

 «ut out what you wish to remove, and it will still have more 

 buds than an ordinary person would think should be left on 

 the plant. It may be budded later than any other stock known, 

 the way of which will be shown hereafter. A Briar Rose often 

 takes two years before it is established, but a Manetti Rose is 

 quickly established ; it may be established in forty-ei^ht hours 

 in hot weather if there is sufficient moisture at the roots. It 

 is the quickest rooter known to me. 



A Rose on its own roots, or on a Manetti stock properly 

 bndded, properly planted, and properly treated for that pur- 

 pose, may be multiplied by Roses on their own roots (the way 

 to do which will be shown hereafter) ; but the Briar Rose can 

 never be more than one Rose. There is hope of the former, 

 that if they be cut down, they will sprout again, but there is no 

 liope for a Briar Rose. If the stock dies the Rose must die 

 with it : and that has been the case this summer with Roses 

 •on good Briars that were wounded in the stock, not in the roots 

 and head, by the severity of the winter. One Briar Dr. Lindley, 

 snd one Briar Black Prince, that bloomed well in the fore part 

 ■of summer, have since died from injury to the stock. The 

 roots of both were perfectly healthy, and the two Roses, which are 

 good growers, with fine foliage, and of a hardy nature, perished, 

 owing to the death of the Briar stock. I have one of each 

 left, and they are doing well. T»io p'auts of Lady Suffield — a 

 capital Hose in all respects, likewise the kind gift of the raiser, 

 Mr. "W. Paul— escaped all iujury, and have grown well, and 

 bloomed continuously. 



It Roses are wanted on their own roots, the quickest and 

 best way to get them is by natural transition from the Manetti 

 Bose, and the way of bringing about this result will be shown 

 hereafter. Then, as an object to please the ."ight, a bui^h plant 

 anuEt be better than a Rose on a " stilt." If Roses are budded 

 on a Briar, except for pendidons or drooping forms, they should 

 not be higher than 3 feet. For conveniently teeing them, 

 lis inches or 2 feet will be a preferable height ; for a peisou 

 must be 7 feet high to view conveniently Roses — strong growers 

 — on a fuur-feet Biiar. As ret;aids Roses on their own roots, 

 'if the soil is very rich and well cultivated, and if you could get 

 strong plants, which is improbable, I think it would be very 

 nice, for myself I do not care whether they are on their onn 

 roots or on the Manetti stock. For poor lauds or bad culti- 

 Jvators, they would be simply wovthless I For poor soil Manetti 

 'Boses aie the best, as tbey do not require nnch a good staple, or 

 anything like ihe expensive manuring that the other t«o re- 



quire. Moreover, in rich land the Manetti Rose requires littla 

 or no manure, but simply annual or biennial removal, either in 

 the same place or to some other. If Roses are planted care- 

 lessly and neglected, which I fear is generally the case, the 

 Manetti Rose will beat the Briar Rose, as, indeed, the Rose on 

 its own roots, when firmly rooted, will also do. I may truly 

 say, that if persons do not mean to cultivate Roses properly, 

 they had better stick to Ragged Jack, or Beans and Peas! 

 Before I approach the subject of cultivation, I will address to 

 such the following lines : — 



" Should e'er your Fancy wish herself to please. 

 Let her take flif^ht among the Beans and Peas ; 

 But. oh ! in pity, never let her try. 

 Her inspiration on the rosery ! "' " 



— W. F. Raecltffe. 



{To be continued.) 



THE POMOLOGICAL CONGRESS OF FRANCE. 



The twelfth meeting of the Pomological Congress of France 

 was this year held in Paris, under the auspices and in the 

 house of the Societe Impel iale et Centrale d' Horticulture of 

 France, 84, Rue de Grenelle St. Germain. The Congress was 

 opened on the 19th instant by an address from the President, 

 Senateur Reveil, in which he reviewed the past history of the 

 Society, its present position, and its future work. 



The Society took its origin at the meeting of the Imperial 

 Horticultural Society of the Rhone, held at Lyons in 1856, 

 when a number of pomologists being assembled from various 

 parts, formed themselves into what was then called the Congres 

 Pomologique de Lyon. It had for its object the destruction of 

 the embarrassing synonymy of fruits that is met with in nur- 

 series, the fixing of a correct name by which each fruit shall 

 henceforth be known, the proper description of varieties, and 

 to encom-age the propagation of good and arrest that of inferior 

 varieties. It was found that the labours of the Society became 

 so extended, and so many pomologists from all parts of France 

 became connected with it, that its operations were widened, 

 and instead of being confined to the neighbourhood of Lyons, 

 it assumed the more universal title of CongrSs Pomologique de 

 France. For twelve years this excellent Society has been 

 labouring faithfully in the field it has undertaken to cultivate, 

 and this year it has for the first time held a meeting in the 

 French capital. 



In connection with the meeting of the Congress there is 

 always a Fruit Show held, altogether independent of the 

 labours of the Congress, and of this Exhibition we shall now 

 proceed to give an account. 



The Exhibition of fruit, which is of considerable extent, 

 consisting chiefly of Apples and Pears, is held in a large hall 

 in the Rue de Grenelle St. Germain, 84. The arrangement 

 of it reminded us very much of the great fruit shows which 

 were held in Willis's Rooms and St. James's Hall, the centre of 

 the ball being filled with seven large tables some 50 or 60 feet 

 in length, and 8 or 10 feet broad, on which the fruits are ar- 

 ranged in dishes. At the entrance and at the farther end of 

 the hall, and in some little rooms adjoining them, are like- 

 wise numbers of smaller tables filled with fruit, the whole 

 presenting a very good appearance without any attempt at dis- 

 play. The most of the fruits are legibly named, and in many 

 instances not very correctly, in our opinion. There is, how- 

 ever, a great difference in the appearance of a fruit grown in 

 Fiance and that of the same variety grown in England ; they are 

 in general much larger, and always more highly coloured when 

 grown in the sunny south than we are accustomed to see them. 

 One great drawback to any one seeking infoimation like our- 

 selves, is the almost total absence of cards indicating by 

 whom the fruit is exhibited. 



Eight in the place of honour, in the centre and extreme end 

 of the hall, on a raised duiis or platform, our countryman, Mr. 

 Knight, of Portechartrain, exhibits his collection, and most 

 creditably has he upheld the standard of Englibh horticulture. 

 His Grapes are by far the finest we have evt r seen grown in 

 France. He exhibits portions of the stem of hi,'* Vines trained 

 on the spur sjsti m, with the bunches hanging on ihem; they 

 are veiy good examples of that mode of cultivating the Vine, 

 an example which the French would do well to imitate, their 

 style of cultivation and the fruit obtained being miserably 

 inferior to what is seen in Eugland. Mr. Knight exhibits 

 of Grapes, Frunkenthal, the bunch and berries be ng of good 

 size, not particularly well coloured ; Cb-i-selas Napoleon, 

 which is a, very handsome and beautiful Grape, not much 



