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This variety cuts up quite back to the stem, and carries a 
beautiful bloom equal in winter to its appearance in summer. I 
found it very difficult to get this sort true, so obtained cuttings, 
and continued to work from cuttings until I saved some seed 
myself; and as I have this season grown but this kind I shall 
have no trouble that way in future, as I saved a good batch of 
seed. S. T. C. C. 
ROSE INFORMATION. 
Considering the severe winter which followed sixteen months 
of rain and sunless weather, roses have bloomed most nobly and 
continuously here, since the 6th of June, and I am glad that “ D,” 
of the Florist came here on the lOtli of September and reviewed 
them. 
I must here pause to return public thanks to him for placing my 
twenty-four trebles projierly in my box, and for taking them to 
the Royal Horticultural Society for September the 11th, and not 
less for his thoughtfulness in sending a telegram the same day, 
conveying the gratifying intelligence of “ triumph.” 
I have been fortunate this season, having, at seven exhibitions, 
won eight first prizes and one fourth prize. I owe these victories 
to the Manetti, chiefly; and I trust that the above victories will 
justify what I have said in public of that most noble stock. The 
propagators have hitherto been its chief hindrance, by budding 
it too high. I have just bought 112 plants of Mr. Gill, of Bland- 
ford, budded scarcely more than two inches above the radius 
the roots, and I will undertake to say that they will do well. 
Being planted two inches over the point of union, they will root 
from the rose as well as from the stock. 
To show the value of well-selected and accumulated roses on 
the Manetti stock, I may mention that I won six first prizes 
between August the 12th and September the 11th, viz., at Lang- 
j)ort, Shepton Mallett, Reading (both the first prizes), Blandford, 
and South Kensington. Henceforth, having done my duty in 
defending the stock and in illustrating its excellence, I shall say 
no more about it. Not one word will I retract of what I have 
already said. 
I will now recommend;— 
1st. Roses that are new, and yet not novelties ,—Eugene Appert, 
Empereur de Maroc, Comtesse Cecile Chabrillan, Dr. Brettoneau, 
Stephanie Beauharnais, Georges Dupont, George Peabody, Sou¬ 
venir d’Elise (now in lovely bloom), Celine Forestier, Octavie 
Fontaine, Marie Thiery, Monsieur Jard, Reine de la Cite, and 
Francis Arago. 
2nd. Roses of 1860 and 1861.—Madame Furtardo, Triomphe 
d’Amiens (mottled lake, choice, distinct, and very fine), Wash¬ 
ington, La Boule d’Or (for glass; it is perfectly hardy, very 
efflorescent, but it has not opened freely), M. Melanie, Parmentier, 
and Due de Cazas. These are good, and the best, as far as I have 
