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strong-growing hardy Perpetual and Hybrid Tea roses. 

 Many rose nurser57men have now discarded this stock. 

 No doubt many failures in rose growing can be traced 

 to its use. The Manetti is raised from cuttings in the 

 same way as the Brier. 



Polyantha. — ^This is the single-flowered form of the 

 Rambler race. Tea roses grow remarkably well upon the 

 Polyantha— at least for a time. This stock may be 

 raised from seed and from cuttings. 



De la Grifferaie. — ^This is a valueless stock, but is 

 largely used by foreign, especially Dutch, growers, and 

 readers are warned against obtaining plants budded 

 upon it. 



Rugosa. — ^This is the Japanese Brier. It is used largely 

 for standard roses by foreign growers. Wonderfully large 

 heads of growth are produced by plants on the Rugosa 

 stock. They have splendid, fibrous roots, but do not 

 make attractive specimens, lacking, as they do, the clean, 

 straight stem of the hedge rose. 



AU these stocks are planted at the same time as 

 those first mentioned. 



