104 THE ROSE. 
Vernet, Madame Victor Verdier, Mademoi- 
selle Eugénie Verdier, Marie Baumann, 
Xavier Olibo, etc. All these kinds are in- 
vigorated by being worked on some strong 
stock, like the Manetti. A third advantage 
of budded roses is for use as stock plants, 
and also for forcing. Budded plants of many 
kinds (not the Jacqueminot type) can be 
taken up in October or November, and with 
ordinary treatment will give as fine a crop of 
flowers as plants of the same varieties which 
have been grown all summer in pots at much 
more expense and labor. 
I would not advise any reader to purchase 
budded roses who cannot tell, by the wood, 
the difference between Persian Yellow and 
General Jacqueminot, between Marie Bau. 
mann and Salet—indeed amateurs who can- 
not do this do not deserve to have roses at 
all, for they would not be able to distinguish 
between the shoots of the Manetti suckers 
and their Louis Van Houtte or Victor Ver- 
dier (although the Manetti is most distinct 
from all other roses). 
Many kinds of stocks have been tried on 
which to bud roses, as the Brier, the Grif- 
feraie, etc., but for general use in this country 
we very greatly prefer the Manetti. The 
stocks are planted in nursery rows about 
