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in blooming of all. Mr. Prince’s magnificent 
culture of Tea Roses on this stock caused it to 
be very generally tried and used for this purpose, 
but I have not found any advantage from its 
adoption. 
The manetti stock is not suitable for purchased 
plants. Its disadvantages are that unless the 
union of stock and scion is planted at least an inch 
below the surface of the soil, the Rose will simply 
die :—that as a general rule it dwindles and gets 
weaker every year, though there are exceptions to be 
found where the rose itself has thrown out roots to 
aid the stocks:—and that the suckers, which it is 
sure to throw up as the plant gets weaker, are 
so like the growth of the Rose, that it requires a 
trained eye to detect the difference. The manetti 
has its uses, in the propagation of new Roses and in 
the growth of ‘‘maiden’’ plants of some of the 
H.P.s for exhibition blooms, but it should not be 
employed for permanent plants. Some years ago it 
was difficult to get dwarf plants upon any other 
stock but this, which was said to be generally more 
suitable to the lighter soils: but, with the increased 
use of the cultivated briar for dwarf stocks, this 
idea has died out, and dwarf H.P.s upon either of 
the three stocks can generally now be obtained of 
the leading professional Rose-growers. 
There are still, I believe, a few amateurs who 
crow Roses in quantity, and show them well, yet 
never bud or propagate them themselves. I cannot 
understand this, for I find a large part of the delight 
of the pursuit in the raising of my own Roses, and 
I have but a few among all my plants which were 
not budded with my own hands, There is much 
