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crown of the plant they leave a place very similar to the cells formed by the 
bee in the honeycomb, in which water lodges and often causes the destruction 
of the plant. That being the case, I consider the plant to have been making 
premature growth, and wasting its energies for a useless purpose. 
When the beds are formed and planted on the system that I advocate and 
adopt with great success,—viz., to plant young green plants in a growing 
state, after the manner described above, the last week in July, the w r hole 
energy of the plant is then employed during the months of August, September, % 
and October in establishing itself. It is thus prevented from making any 
premature growths, and those young pseudo-buds, which would have been 
destroyed, had the young plant remained in the seed bed until the following 
spring and then being planted, are thereby saved. The} r rush up in the 
following spring, gaining strength by the atmospheric food they receive, and 
are followed by others stronger and more robust, and the 
“ Cry is still, They come.” 
It is in thus saving or preventing the plant from making premature growth, 
that nearly a year in strength is gained. 
We will now suppose the bed or beds to have been planted twelve months. 
Nothing in the shape of a stimulant will be required till the autumn, only the 
protection mentioned above for preventing the plants from receiving injury 
by high winds and heavy rains. In the autumn, the beds should have another 
thick coat of manure, with a liberal allowance of salt, and in the summer 
following be well supplied with liquid manure. In the autumn of the second 
season after planting, the plants -will be found in excellent condition for 
forcing, and if left in the beds undisturbed till the following spring, in splendid 
condition for cutting from in the open ground. 
Oulton Park. J. Wills. 
THE MANETTI STOCK, AND ROSES ON THE MANETTI 
STOCK. 
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9th. How Manetti Pot-plants may be best reared into good 
trees. —Unless they are very weak, I never put them into Cucumber-frames, 
as it only fosters fungoid diseases, which is more or less about plants reared 
under artificial heat. I plant them out at once, or harden them gradually, and 
then plant them out. I have now tw r elve Hose banks, in different ages, and 
nothing can do better than these pot-plants, some of which are now (tw r o years 
old), 8 feet high. All the pot-plants, bought this last fall, are planted out on 
the banks, which are covered with straw; they are perfectly healthy and safe. 
In all I have about 193 in different ages on the banks, which can be seen by 
any one that will honour me with a call. The Manetti Roses here usually 
begin about the 6th of June, are plentiful by the 12th, and in their zenith 
between that and the 20th. These plants, on banks, may be put thick the first 
year. The next year every other plant may be taken out, and placed with the 
strong plants planted on the flat. I observe that pot-plants ultimately make 
the best and most enduring trees. If their wood is hard, never mind the 
quantity. 
10th. How Mal-propagation on strong stocks may, in some mea¬ 
sure, be obviated. —If plants are budded too high, plant them at a reasonable 
depth, and earth-up the remainder over the point of union, like Potatoes; the 
sun can then act on the roots. The sun may be too hot for briar Roses, but it 
