47—1849.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



«ith from 6 to 12 shoots from each hud. I will here I training Peach trees is the best, at 





ferle des Panaches (Gal.), budded in September 

 1848, now from .3 to 4 feet ; Tricolor de Fiandre 

 (Gal), budded same time, 3 to 4 feet ; Cvnthie (Gal. 

 jmdded same time, 2 feet ; La CheYie (Damask), budded 

 ame time, 2 feet ; Crimson Perpetual, budded same 

 6a», 3 feet ; Rivers (Laffay's), s .me time, 4 feet, and 

 same progress. Then, of stronger growing sorts, the 

 following , u hie', were all budded in September 1848), 

 lie now respectively the heights quoted, viz. : Bourbon 

 (Splendent), ... feet ; Comte Plater, 6 feet, very strong- 

 ttkae de Poitiers, 6 feet ; Madame Stoltz, 4 feet \ 

 Dombrowski, 5 feet ; Moss Laneii, .5 feet, and some o< 

 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. Crimson, 5 feet; Do. 

 Malvina, 5 feet; Do. Moussue Partout, 5 feet; Do. 

 Do. Presque Partout, 5 feet ; Do. De Metz. 5 feet ; 

 Comte de Flandres (Gal.) and Spotted Provence, 



Desgaches, Cardinal Fesch, and Madame Ande, 4 to 

 5ft. ; Madame Nerard, B. Queen, and Anne Bel«se,2 ft. ; 



eovered with buds and bloom) ; Pri 



Md com;, 



"ng singly, would have the appearance (in size) < 

 a Dahlia plant at f u; 



shes ; Cornet, 5 feet, 



not been cut down for buds. Baronne Prevost, Mrs. 

 Elliot, Duchess of Sutherland, La Reine, Madame 



plants; and Jaune Desprez, with some of the new 

 Prairie Roses budded on this stock are 10 feet high in 



(newly budded) when you were here ia September, 

 feet high, and many of them an iac 

 They are budded with all the best sorts of Ro=es ; and 

 I have especially endeavoured to get those sorts worked 

 upon them that have usually b en bad growers (though 

 t Roses), and of which I could never 



i Bourbons, Hybrid Perpetuals, Chinas, 



thU.t'; 



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ffotbeT, 



b, that it thrives well on light soils, where the Briar 

 *j|l not thrive at all ; and this does away with all the 



»H Roses seem to do well alike on it— better, in fact, 

 «an npon their own roots, and no doubt they will bloom 

 k'ter. 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 

 tt y success with the Rosa Manettii as a stock for the 

 generality of Roses." 



The history of the Manettii stock is as follows. Some 

 < 2 or 15 years since a Signor Crivelli, of Como, attracted 

 b 7 an article in Loudon's "Gardeners' Magazine," 



Koses for choice named varieties. I sent him a small 

 Election, and in return received from him some seed- 

 "n? Roses ; among them were Rosa indica grandifiora 

 *w Rosa indica Manettii, two very small plants. 

 ">ese he described as being hybrid China Roses, 

 **& most valuable Roses for stocks in the dry 

 Jj»ate of Italy. I soon fm: 

 «e in habit as scarcely t 

 "•wred most materially in this respect ; the former j 

 *»ld only be propagated bv - 

 £«7 cutting grew. I gradually inert 

 "fc latter, and now propagate from 

 Wnually. As with all new articles in 



tion oTsap™ The! 



figured, and tin- 



: . 



it ; for, if young trees are properly" beg 

 tinued for the first three years, it may i 



itural form, the crop will be more refills 



t laying in ;i much greater number of i 

 i following year's crop mainly depends. 





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ems equally indifferent aboul 



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s were planted. The other 



:eep them from drifting till they made a few roe .,: Marchaatia was 



lold themselves to the bottom. Three of them an i y, called the pwtil- 



jrs and spores were developed. 



> the frost from the root), and | The fully d 



injury. By the end of July they I 



although the ; appeared first in the ft 



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