General Notices. 133 



Rosa Manettii as a Rose Stock. — The following letter from Mr. 

 Appleby, of York, will perhaps save you a little labor ; it is all true. 



" When you were here, in September last, you requested me to send you 

 an account of my success witli tlie Rosa Manettii as a stock for roses gen- 

 erally. I got a few (I believe about 20,) from you about four years ago, and, 

 having great faith in what you said respecting its capabilities, I was deter- 

 mined to give it a fair trial, and accordingly I endeavored to make the most 

 of it. I planted them out as stools, and the following winter I took the 

 crop of cuttings and planted tliem in the usual manner, and I am not aware 

 that I lost one of them. Those I also planted out as stools, and the crop of 

 cuttings this time was planted in rows 18 inches apart, and G inches in tlie 

 row. This was in tlie montli of March, 1847, and in August following, they 

 were all fit for budding. I say all, because I do not think tliat ten in a hun- 

 dred died, alUiough tliey were fully exposed to tlie weather in an open quar- 

 ter. Some of these were budded as late as the last week in September, 

 and still tliey took well generally. They broke freely in the spring follow- 

 ing, and by the autumn many of them were as high as myself, which quite 

 delighted me, for I had never seen any tiling in rose culture like them. 1 

 now valued Manetti cuttings like gold, and I ordered my men not to tlirow 

 away an inch that was likely to make a plant. In the spring of 1848 I was 

 enabled to make a tolerably good plantation of them ; and, although they 

 were planted late, (I believe in the beginning of April,) and the season set 

 in dry, I nevertheless lost but few of tliem ; but they were late in getting 

 hold of the ground, and I did not get them budded until the end of Septem- 

 ber, still the buds took well as before, and you were yourself a witness to 

 the progress tliey have made. There are many sorts amongst them that I 

 could never get to tlirive — in fact, scarcely to exist — upon the brier, tliat are 

 now (in one year) from 3 to 4 feet high, and strong in proportion ; and 

 others (that are free growers) I have 6 feet high, witli from 6 to 12 shoots 

 from each bud. I will here enumerate a few sorts tliat are known to be bad 

 growers upon the brier, and state the height which they have attained in 

 one season. I will begin with Eblouissante de la Queue (Gal.), grafted in 

 April last, now 3 feet high and strong; Chateaubriand (Damask), also 

 grafted at tlie same time, 3 feet ; Perle des Panaches (Gal.), budded in Sep- 

 tember, 1848, now from 3 to 4 feet ; Tricolor de Flandres (Gal.), budded 

 same time, 3 to 4 feet; Cynthie (Gal.), budded same time, 2 feet; La Clierie 

 (Damask), budded same time, 2 feet ; Crimson Perpetual, budded same 

 time, 3 feet ; Rivers (Laffay's), same time, 4 feet, and many others of simi- 

 lar habit of growth have made the same progress. Then, of stronger grow- 

 ing sorts, the following (which were all budded in September, 1848,) are 

 now respectively the heights quoted, viz. : Bourbon (Splendens), 5 feet ; 

 Comte Plater, 6 feet, very strong; Diane de Poitiers, 6 feet; Madame 

 Stoltz, 4 feet ; Dombrowski, 5 feet ; Moss Laneii, 5 feet, and some of them 

 with a dozen shoots from one bud ; do. Lancel, 4 feet ; do. Louis Colet, 

 4 feet ; do. White Bath, 4 feet ; do. Blush, 5 feet ; do. Crunson, 5 feet ; 

 do. Malvina, 5 feet ; do. Moussue Partout, 5 feet ; do. Presque Partout, 5 

 feet ; do. De Metz, 5 feet ; Comte de Flandres (Gal.) and Spotted Provence, 



