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Roots " after two or three years from planting, and this is, in a 

 sense, no doubt true, especially when the stock used is the 

 Manetti; but when the union between bud and stock has once 

 been good, although the Rose will make roots of its own above 

 the union, and be so far an " Own Root," yet it will at the same 

 time continue to draw nourishment for very many years through 

 the stock roots also. The present Returns therefore advise us 

 to continue to bud Roses, as not only being a quicker and easier 

 method of propagation, but as also giving us better flowers. 



In thus summarising and interpreting, to the best of my 

 ability, the results of the Returns sent in, I have endeavoured as 

 far as possible to refrain from the expression of any single per- 

 sonal opinion, either of my own or of others ; but I think it will be 

 of interest to many to have before them the following note on 

 Stocks, which was enclosed in the return of Messrs. Cocker, of 

 Aberdeen. 



I have ventured only to add up Messrs. Cocker's list of 

 experiments with forty-six varieties, with the following results : — 



Be=t. Middle. Worst. 



Briar Cutting .... 28 13 5 



Seedling Briar .... 12 19 15 



Manetti 9 12 25 



Similar experiments, carried out on a sufficiently large scale, 

 in other places would give us very valuable results. 



W. Wilks. 



