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that they may order those most suitable for the 
several varieties and the purposes for which they 
are designed. Hxcept that we cannot, fortunately, 
purchase Teas upon the manetti stock, as the union 
is universally acknowledged to be a failure the 
principal varieties of Roses may now be obtained of 
those nurserymen who make them a speciality upon 
the four recognised stocks—standards, briar cuttings, 
briar seedlings and manetti. Which shall we 
choose ? 
The advantages and disadvantages of the standard 
stock may be summed up as follows. It does very 
well for the old-fashioned summer Roses of the 
Hybrid China and Bourbon races, where a fine head 
and a grand mass of bloom just in the season is 
desired, but is not suitable for the Mosses, Austrians, 
and the majority of the other kinds that bloom 
but once. It is also a good stock for most of 
the H.P.s, forming large heads with the strong- 
growing sorts, and perhaps producing more refined 
flowers from those which are inclined to be coarse. 
For a time the weaker-growing varieties also do 
well on this form of stock, perhaps even better than 
as ‘‘dwarf’’ plants, but only the very hardiest and 
most vigorous are as lasting on the standard as are 
properly planted specimens on the cutting and 
seedling briayr. 
A majority of all sorts of Teas and Noisettes 
give better and finer flowers on standard than on 
dwarf stocks. The natural idea would be to have 
the stronger forms of Teas, such as Marie van 
Houtte and Anna Olivier, as standards, and those of 
weaker growth, such as Comtesse de Nadaillac and 
Cleopatra, as dwarfs. As regards the outward 
