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together and afterwards well aerated, mixed with about one-third of per- 

 fectly decomposed three-year-old cow-dung, and plenty of gritty sand. 

 Thus potted and placed in a frame, if upon a spent hot-bed all the better, 

 and covered 6 to 12 inches deep with old tan or ashes, and fully exposed, 

 except to drenching rains, they will soon fill the pots with roots and be fit 

 to introduce to the forcing-house the beginning of November. Bulbs 

 should not be selected for their size, but for their weight and solidity ; a 

 small bulb that is heavy and firm, especially about the point of growth, will 

 produce a much finer flower than one double the size, but soft and scaly ; 

 and hence it is not right to estimate bulbs by their size, so much as by 

 their weight and proper maturation. 



In making the above remarks my object is to check the early importation 

 of bulbs, by showing purchasers the impropriety of buying them. Bulbs 

 imported early should be kept cool and in the dark ; and if you wish to 

 have good flowers, avoid those that have been exposed in seed-shop win- 

 dows.— (Garrf. Chron., 1852, p. 548.) 



The Manetti Rose. — Some eight or nine years ago I planted two 

 borders with pillar Roses, principally of varieties of hybrid China and 

 hybrid Bourbon ; many of these were budded on the Manetti, the remainder 

 on the Dog Rose ; they were not marked but planted indiscriminately, and 

 all about the diflference in the stocks entirely forgotten till some time about 

 the end of last July, when I was attracted by the extremely vigorous growth 

 of many of the Roses in question, in contrast with others in the same 

 borders ; this led to examination and inquiry, when I found that all, or 

 nearly all, of these vigorous growing Roses, were budded on the Manetti 

 Rose, the others on the Dog Rose. The former are from 7 to 8 feet in 

 height, and among them are the following sorts : Baronne Prevost, Charles 

 Duval, Legonn6, Parigot, t&c. They are now 10 years old, and the union 

 of the bud with the stock is so perfect as scarcely to be distinguished. 

 Surely this is evidence enough as to the durable quality of this stock ; but 

 why should it be otherwise, will Messrs. Lane and Paul say ? Is not the 

 Manetti a hybrid China Rose ? and are not all our finest autumnal Roses of 

 the same race ? The transition must therefore be less than when a bud of 

 a hybrid Rose is placed in a Dog Rose stock. I ought to add, that the 

 pillar Roses, above described, are growing in a cold wet soil on a subsoil 

 of clay. I have hitherto thought the Manetti better adapted to light 

 sandy soils, in which I have always observed it to succeed admirably. I 

 was particularly struck this summer with a bed of the Rose G6ant des 

 Batailles, in the garden of Mr. Mickle, of Folkestone. The plants are 

 three or four years old, and most vigorous and beautiful. Two or three 

 plants in the same bed are on the Dog Rose ; tlie contrast is most remarka- 

 ble. Now, the soil at Folkestone is so light and sandy that Roses on the 

 Dog Rose seldom or never succeed well. The Manetti Rose stock requires 

 some attention as to the time of budding, and care in not giving it too rich 

 a soil, &c. I remember finding some little difficulty in its management at 

 first; and sol think it will be well for the above-named gentlemen, my 

 good friends and neighbors, to come here and serve a sort of apprenticeship. 

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