206 STOCKS RECOMMENDED. 



cutting ; and in this, at about three or four inches 

 from the bottom, the bud must be inserted. The 

 stocks should be budded as soon as possible after 

 being' uncovered, or the bark will become rigid, 

 and will not open freely. 



The Celine stock, a very old Hybrid Bourbon 

 Rose, is a most excellent stock for Bourbon 

 Noisette (particularly the Cloth of Grold), and 

 many other roses ; if planted in a rich moist soil, 

 it will make shoots from four to five feet in height, 

 fit for low standards. 



The Rosa Manetti is a rose I received some 

 thirty years since, from Como, fromSignor Crivelli, 

 who recommended it as the very best of all roses 

 for a stock. It was raised from seed by Signor 

 Manetti of the Botanic G-arden at Monza. All the 

 roses I have budded on this stock have succeeded 

 admirably ; above all, the Hybrid Perpetuals, 

 which scarcely seem to know when to leave off 

 growing and blooming in the autumn; indeed 

 it is remarkable for its late growth : for it may be 

 budded during nearly the whole of September ; 

 another excellent quality is, that it never gives 

 any suckers from its roots at long distances from 

 the plant, like the Dog Rose ; it seems to flourish 

 equally in light and dry as well as in stiff soils ; 

 and it will, I trust, be of much value to the rose 

 amateur, who, if the soil of his rose garden be 

 light and dry, is so often troubled with the nu- 

 merous suckers thrown up by the Dog Rose. I 



