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5 feet ; and in Bourbons, I have Acidalie, 3 to 4 feet ; Desgaches, Car- 

 dinal Pesch, and Madame Ande, 4 to 5 feet ; Madame Nerard, B. Queen, 

 and Anne Beluse, 2 feet ; (these have been in bloom from last May, and 

 are still covered with buds and bloom) ; Princesse Clementine, Emilie Cour- 

 tier, and several others are from 2 to 3 feet, and have been constantly in 

 bloom all summer. In the Hybrid Perpetuals I have Robin Hood, 3 to 

 4 feet, and complete bushes ; Cornet, 5 feet, very strong ; Sidonie, 4 

 feet, and most robust. Every plant, if standing singly, would have the 

 appearance (in size) of a large dahlia plant at this season of the year. 

 Geant des Batadles would have been quite as large, had they not been cut 

 down for buds. Baronne Prevost, Mrs. Elliot, Duchess of Sutherland, La 

 Reine, Madame Laffay, Wm. Jesse, and several otliers, are all similar 

 plants ; and Jaune Desprez, with some of the new Prairie roses budded on 

 this stock, are 10 feet high in one season. The quarters of stocks which 

 you saw (newly budded) when you were here in September, were all planted 

 in March last, and are now from 3 to 4 feet high, and many of them an inch 

 in circumference. They are budded with all the best sorts of roses ; and I 

 have especially endeavored to get those sorts worked upon them that have 

 usually been bad growers, (tliough some of the best roses,) and of which I 

 could never get any stock, and I have no doubt but the result will be to my 

 satisfaction. Anotlier year, I intend to bud those stocks with Bourbons, 

 Hybrid Perpetuals, Chinas, &c., from 1 foot to 3 feet high, as dwarf stand- 

 ards ; and I feel confident they will form beautiful heads. So confident am 

 I of the superiority of the Rosa Manettii over every otlier stock for roses, 

 that I shall never again plant any other, excepting for full-sized standards. 

 All other stocks, in my light sandy soil, tlirow out quantities of suckers, 

 which are constantly robbing tlie bud of its support, to say nothing of tlie 

 labor they occasion to get rid of them ; but this stock does nothing of the 

 kind, unless a stray bud has been left on in dressing them, and then it 

 merely comes up close to the stem, and is easily got rid of, as they never' 

 produce stolons or underground suckers. Another advantage is, that it 

 tlirives well on light soils, where the brier will not tlu-ive at all ; and this does 

 away with all the objections that some parties have to worked roses, as all 

 roses seem to do well alike on it — ^better, in fact, than upon tlieir own roots, 

 and no doubt they will bloom better. Besides, many roses on their own 

 roots are constantly throwing a quantity of root suckers, and ultimately run 

 wild. The above is a faithful account of my success with the Rosa Man- 

 ettii as a stock for the generality of roses." 



The history of the Manettii sttock is as follows : — Some 12 or 15 years 

 since a Signor Crivelli, of Como, attracted by an article in Loudon's " Gar- 

 deners' Magazine," wrote to me, offering to exchange some seedling Italian 

 roses for choice named varieties. I sent him a small collection, and in return 

 received from him some seedling roses; among them were Rosa indica 

 grandiflora and Rosa indica Manettii, two very small plants- These he 

 described as being hybrid China roses, and most valuable roses for stocks in 

 the dry climate of Italy. I soon found, that altliough so much alike in habit 

 as scarcely to be distinguished, they differed most materially in tliis respect ; 



