104 THE ROSE. 



Vernet, Madame Victor Verdier, Mademoi- 

 selle Eugenie 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- 

 f eraie, etc. , but for general use in this country 

 we very greatly prefer the Manetti. The 

 stocks are planted in nursery rows about 



