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and that in hundreds of our gardens he is a welcome 

 and honoured guest. I know that the Manetti will 

 grow luxuriantly where the Brier will not grow at all ; 

 that in a toward season it will produce some varieties 

 of the Rose in their most perfect form, those especially 

 which have the smoother wood ; that in many cases 

 the Rose-trees budded upon it have a more abundant 

 growth than those which are budded on the Brier ; 

 and that Rose-trees upon the Manetti are more endur- 

 ing, and therefore more economical, than Standards, — 

 because the Brier, divested of its laterals, and exposed 

 to all weathers, is in a less natural position, and 

 because the Rose, if budded as it ought to be on the 

 Manetti, that is, below the soil, will establish itself on 

 roots of its own. I know, in fine, that the importation 

 of this stock has been a very gracious boon to those 

 who love the Rose ; I know that Mr. Cranston of 

 Hereford on several occasions surpassed all com- 

 petitors with Roses grown on this stock ; but I am 

 nevertheless, convinced that by far the greater number 

 of the most perfect Roses may be, are^ and will be, 

 grown and shown from our indigenous British Brier, 

 taken from the hedgerows, struck from cuttings, or 

 raised frorn seed. 



Give your order — and any labourer will soon learn 

 to bring you what you want — towards the end of 

 October. I have myself a peculiar but unfailing in- 



