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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
Redhill, having in vain tried briar Roses, is determined to try Manetti Roses.” 
I say, as I have said before, that the briar is an excellent stock for strong lands, 
but for the generality of lands, and for free growers, Manetti is the best stock. 
The briar is, perhaps, the best for moderate or dwarf growers, but both the 
briar and the Manetti stock are kept healthy by the freedom of the growth of 
the Rose. The summer Roses here, chiefly on briars, illustrate the first case ; 
and, though they have been here for years, in lands not suited to the briar, 
they are healthy, masterpieces in form, and an “ exhibition” every season. 
They passed through the severe ordeal of 1860-61 without a scratch, and are 
better than when I bought them of Cranston years ago. Another case of con¬ 
version is in my own county. Mr. Edward House, yeoman, of the fine old 
Elizabethan house at Anderson, who has budded his own briars for years, told me, 
when I was there this summer, “ I have given away 400 of my briar Roses. 
The Manetti Roses have done well; henceforth Manetti is the stock for me!” 
A voice comes also from my respected parishioner, Mr. John Ford, whose 
land is strong, and to whom I gave almost all his Roses on both stocks. He 
told me that the briar Roses stood no chance with the Manetti Roses; and yet 
you will be told that Manetti Roses are not good for strong lands. A voice 
also comes from Ireland. Lady Dunraven says : “ Great pains are taken with 
the briar Roses round my geometrical garden, but they do nothing; I must try 
the Manetti Roses.” Accordingly, I recommended her some that do well here, 
and which, I doubt not, will do equally well in Ireland. I need not mention 
any more cases. I could supply voluminous testimony. The greatest testimony, 
next to that of personal experience, is the difficulty the nurserymen have in 
supplying the increasing public demand for Manetti Roses. The failures must 
be shared by the propagator and cultivator. Some propagators bud them so 
high that it is impossible to plant them sufficiently deep to cover the stock. 
The cultivator, hitherto, has not covered the stock, even where it might have 
been done; and he has cut the Rose down as if it were a briar Rose; whereas 
it should, from first to last, be cut like a Hybrid China. The propagator is 
also to be blamed for putting bad growers, or delicate sorts, on the stock. 
8th. How Manetti Roses should be managed in strong land. —It 
is supposed by some that the stock, and Rose on the stock* do not like strong 
land. The converse is the truth. It is oftentimes too good a stock for first- 
class lands; it is driven, by excess of growth, into blindness. The way to 
cure it is to root-prune in loco , or lift, and root-prune. Moreover, sorts that 
grow excessively should not be manured till after their flowers are formed; 
their long shoots should be shortened but little, inferior wood cut out, and, if 
the tree is overladen with buds, some of them may be cut off with a view to 
succession. There is another way in which the Manetti Rose may be made 
available in land especially suited to the briar. Stocks may be planted, and in 
due time budded. After the first season, in the autumn, they may be sold to 
the provincial nurserymen at reduced prices, who would be glad to avail them¬ 
selves of plants reared in first-class land. The management, in light land, will 
be the same, except that, if they give their flowers well and late, there will be no 
need of removal or root-pruning. 
(To be continued .) 
BEURRE CLAIRGEAU PEAR. 
In walking though Mr. Turner’s nursery in the month of October, about four 
years since, I was much struck with some small Pear trees which were laden with 
highly-coloured fruit, and apparently a variety with which I Tvas unacquainted. 
I inquired the name, and was told “ Beurre Clairgeau, but that it was not of much 
