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can scarcely be too hot for Manetti Roses, if supplied with water. I have 
plenty of pumps, plenty of decayed manure, and a willing and obedient servant 
—all I ask for is a West Indian sun. For lazy people a hot dripping summer 
is best, but the blooms are spoiled by rain. 
It may be as well here to say that, as good sound briars are getting scarce, 
it would be wise to rear some Manetti stocks; they are easily raised. Slips 
10 inches should be planted in September; by the following September they 
# will, in strong land, become robust trees. The following season they will be 
fit for budding. In order to bud them low conveniently they should be planted 
in delves. In severe winter the delves may be filled up with leaves or straw. 
11th. How MANY POINTS OF ADVANTAGE ARE THERE IN MANETTI 
Roses ?—They are an admirable via media for obtaining Roses on their own 
roots, often with multiplication. They require less water and less manure 
than Roses on their own roots, or on the briar; they can be grown in land 
where these two would be hopeless; they will stand more violation from 
the weather, from fungoid diseases, and from the ignorance or neglect of the 
owner; they are earlier, more abundant, more continuous, and later than any 
other Roses. Here the blooms are far larger. If diseased in root, thev can 
be recovered by placing them under a north wall, with a light covering of 
earth and a cloth over them. They will then quickly recover by making fresh 
roots. I have saved thus, this summer, two Alfred de Rougemonts that were 
yellow in their wood. Manetti Roses are quickly established; you may plant 
them at any time, and move them with their balls on at any time, even with 
their leaves on and buds formed, without detriment, provided you water them, 
and place a sheet over them for a few days. If you live near the nurseryman, 
so as to get them home before their leaves are injured, September is the best 
time to have them, as they make new roots at once, and the removal causes 
them to confirm their wood. You may cut them in the winter (their rest is 
short), when they are dormant; or you may let them form all their new wood 
and buds, and cut out what you do not want in May. Their buds are so many 
and distant, that the bud-worm can never disappoint you. They fatten and 
tumble off here, and still leave more buds than one cares to see on the plant. 
The stock, being under ground, has no frontier to defend; a little straw over 
the surface will defy zero. I need not give a list of Roses that do well on the 
stock, because I never had one that grew freely, and was hardy in its con¬ 
stitution, that did not do well. The reader may refer to the Roses that I have 
previously recommended. My Roses are mainly on the Manetti stock. I may 
observe that Mr. Rivers, by double budding on the Manetti, and Mr. Harrison, 
of Darlington, with a new stock, tell me that in due time they mean to astonish 
the Rose world. Be it so ; if a better stock comes out, the Manetti stock can 
never be a bad one for suitable Roses. “ We shall see what we shall see !” 
In addition to its many virtues, the Manetti stock is essential to the quick and 
convenient dispersion of novelties through the kingdom. 
Lastly. How Glad the Reader will be to See the Word “Finis.” 
—Before I conclude I shall do well to make the following observations. Some 
Roses will do well on their own roots, as Paul Joseph and Louis XIV., that 
will not succeed on any hitherto-tried stock. Roses that will not do well on 
their own roots, or any stock, in light soils, will often do well in rich deep 
loams, as Madame Vidot, Madame Rivers, and others. I have seen Roses do 
badly, both on the briar and on Manetti, that would have done well had they 
been properly treated. This article is not intended to deny the virtues of the 
briar stock in proper soils, and under proper hands. It is intended to show 
persons how they may grow Roses on the Manetti stock in first-class lands, and 
also in lands where it would probably be hopeless to expect to see them on the 
