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in blooming of all. Mr. Prince's magnificent 

 culture of Tea Roses on this stock caused it to 

 be very generally tried and used for this purpose, 

 but I have not found any advantage from its 

 adoption. 



The manetti stock is not suitable for purchased 

 plants. Its disadvantages are that unless the 

 union of stock and scion is planted at least an inch 

 below the surface of the soil, the Rose will simply 

 die : — that as a general rule it dwindles and gets 

 weaker every year, though there are exceptions to be 

 found where the rose itself has thrown out roots to 

 aid the stocks : — and that the suckers, which it is 

 sure to throw up as the plant gets weaker, are 

 so like the growth of the Rose, that it requires a 

 trained eye to detect the difference. The manetti 

 has its uses, in the propagation of new Roses and in 

 the growth of "maiden" plants of some of the 

 H.P.s for exhibition blooms, but it should not be 

 employed for permanent plants. Some years ago it 

 was difficult to get dwarf plants upon any other 

 stock but this, which was said to be generally more 

 suitable to the lighter soils : but, with the increased 

 use of the cultivated briar for dwarf stocks, this 

 idea has died out, and dwarf H.P.s upon either of 

 the three stocks can generally now be obtained of 

 the leading professional Rose-growers. 



There are still, I believe, a few amateurs who 

 grow Roses in quantity, and show them well, yet 

 never bud or propagate them themselves. I cannot 

 understand this, for I find a large part of the dehght 

 of the pursuit in the raising of my own Roses, and 

 I have but a few among all my plants which were 

 not budded with my own hands, There is much 



