THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 207 
BUDDING ROSES ON THE MANETTI. 
BY HENRY TAYLOR, ESQ., FENCOTE. 
= HE following practice has been found to answer admir- 
(| ably. Where the bud has failed on a manetti, I cut 
the stock down quite close to the ground, or, better 
still, an inch lower than the ground, if it is a good 
strong stock. Three or four stout shoots are sent up. 
Early in July I bud every shoot ; in about three weeks or a month 
the ties are loosened, and no further care is taken of them uatil the 
year following, when in the month of March I head all the shoots 
down to just one eye above the bud. This eye is left to draw sap. 
If any of the buds do not start, I stop back the sap-bud after it has 
grown from four to six inches. If the bud is still obstinate, I cut 
the sap-bud clean out, then the rose-bud starts into growth at once. 
By June or July I have from three to four roses growing upon one 
manetti stool. When the roses have made growth about a foot 
long, I form a mound of soil about the stool, covering the junction of 
the buds about an inch; this operation causes the manetti shoots to 
emit roots. Early in September I pull down the mound of earth, 
and examine for roots ; at the same time with a strong knife I partly 
detach the manetti shoots from the old stem; I then raise up the 
mound of earth again, and roots are almost certain to be formed 
during the autumn. In February I take up the whole Stool, and 
split off every shoot which is now a manetti rose, and plant them 
in the usual way, covering the junction an inch, or rather more. 
There are two advantages gained by adopting this system. The first 
and most especial one for the amateur is, that there is a greater 
certainty of his buds taking, because he buds on wood of the same 
season’s growth; the second advantage is, he gets three or four 
manetti roses from one stool. Some of the shoots at planting time 
will probably not have emitted roots; but I find in practice when 
planted out, and the rose cut down to about six inches, that roots are 
soon produced. It must be borne in mind that manetti stocks in- 
tended for this sort of work must not be prepared like currant and 
gooseberry cuttings, which have all eyes cut out except three or four 
at the top. 
WINTER SALADING. 
BY GEORGE sMITH. 
EFERENCE to winter salads may, to many readers, 
j/ appear out of place at midsummer, and it may be well 
to remind those who feel disposed to pass this com- 
munication by because of its supposed unseasonableness, 
4 that to have a well-filled salad-bowl in winter, prepara- 
tions must be made in the course of the ensuing month. Indeed, 
some of the saladings have to be raised from seed sown in the 
spring season; but as they are mostly of minor importance, it is not 
duly. 
