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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, August 2, 1859. 
the man. (Mr. Spong) and Ills buds. These suckers made 
the huge bushes up to ten feet high, which uo one would 
buy, and which I bought the day after for 2s., and handed 
them over to Mr. ifoss, another of our celebrities about 
Surbiton,' and told him he ought to make ten thousand 
cuttings of them. The part that was budded was still 
alive iu most of the plants, and some of the Hoses were 
yet alive, and from one to four inches long; while five, 
six, and seven shoots could be counted on each plant 
sufficiently strong to make stocks for fountain Hoses — 
that is, stocks from six to nine feet high, and strong 
enough in proportion; and I venture to say that such a 
sight was never seen of Dog Hose stocks. 
Of all the plants I ever cultivated, the Hose and the 
Strawberry are the most unaccountable. The Downton >, 
Strawberry was the best flavoured of all the kinds raised 
iumy time. In 1833 I renewed a bed of that Strawberry, 
trenched, levelled, and added more soil to that part of 
the garden, and I never could grow the Downton after 
that. I failed most completely to fruit the British Queen 
Strawberry, or to keep it more than half alive. The next 
two gardeners who succeeded me did not fare better; 
for the very last communication I had from Sir William 
Middleton wa3 asking if I could suggest how they might 
fruit the British Queen. I failed as completely with the 
Mauetti on its own root, and as a -stock at the Experi- , 
mental Garden, not more than a mile from where it grows j 
four times faster, and equally as strong as any Dog Hose 
whatever. 
Those who read the early volumes of The Cottage 
Gakdenek will recollect the glowing accounts I used to 
give of the Gloire cle Rosamene Hose on the chalky soil 
at Shrubland Park. Here, however, it does even worse 
than the Manetti; and there are many more Hoses like 
it in that respect. They are so affected by the soil, that 
unless they are on their own roots, or on some particular ; 
stock, there is no getting them along at all; but the 
Rosamene is the only one yet which does not pay on its 
own roots hereabouts. 
There is a splendid Hose called General Castellane, a 
brilliant crimson, which has been exhibited at all the 
Hose shows for the last few years; but I never had it, 
and the accounts of it in the different Hose catalogues are 
quite contradictory. Among gardeners it is the same ; 
but on the authority of an excellent judge I mentioned it 
from the Ilanover Square Hooms as a fine pillar Hose— 
and when I mention a pillar Hose I must bo understood 
as meaning the pillar Hose on its own roots. The common j 
old Moss Hose will make a splendid pillar from eight to 
twelve feet on its own roots. Some that are of that size 
I had measured, and reported in The Cottage Gabdenee, 
at Bank Grove near Kingston. Nine out of every ten of 
all the Perpetual Hoses would do the same, and General 
Castellane, no doubt, among the rest. My friend said it 
is a very strong grower, and would reach up to eight feet 
almost as fast as the common Moss, provided you plant it 
on its own roots. But the reason why I mentioned it so 
particularly, out of others that are just as good, was to 
see if I could raise a question about it and similar kinds 
that are much affected by soil and situation. That question 
has started. A lady from near Durham asks if it will 
grow there, eight feet high, against a wall which is a mile 
and a half from the sea P No one can be sure whether it 
will or not. Mr. Cranston, the great Hose-grower near 
Hereford, marks it in his catalogue among the very best, 
but says, “ Its habit is very dwarfand, “ Should the 
soil not be of the best description for Hoses, those marked 
as dwarf-growing varieties should be avoided, or only 
chosen to be grown on dwarf or dwarf-standard stocks.’’ 
The Messrs. Paul & Son, of Cheshunt,have repeatedly, and 
thisyear also, marked it as a robustgrower—thatis, making 
strong shoots, but not growing so long as some others. 
They, too, place it among the very best. “ A brilliant 
crimson, large and full,” which it certainly is. Mr. Hivers 
placed it among his second-best Roses in 1858, and says it 
is “ very delicate.” Mr. Krancis always places it among 
the best exhibition Hoses inhi3 catalogues, without saying 
whether it is a dwarf or a giant. Mr. Lane the same ; and 
Mr. Turner, of Slough, has it among “ the best varieties 
now grown.” So, you see, it is a good Hose at all events. 
But how arc we to account for its being on a par with the 
Moss Hose, a robust grower, a very dwarf and very delicate 
kind? The whole secret is in the soil. One man told me 
in the Hanover Square Hooms, it was a “ thundering good 
Hosebut if he had said “ lightning,” I should have been 
just as wise. When we take up a Hose for the ladies, 
we ought to be very particular; and what I would advise 
our fair correspondent from Durham is, not to plant 
General Castellane against that wall for fear the soil 
might not be just of the right 3ort; but I would strongly 
advise her to have one or two dwarf plants of it, and 
on its own roots if possible, to be planted in a Hose 
border, and I shall tell of other Generals which are 
sure to rise up against her wall, and give her all the 
pleasure which any known Hose can afford. Last April 
I had three cuttings of General Jaqueminot struck for 
me, and in June I planted two of them, one foot apart, to 
make a pillar Hose; and the third I planted against a 
wall twenty feet high. If it should ever get to the top 
it will be a wonder: as it is, no crimson Hose is more 
lovely to my eyesight. It is not so doable as Castellane, 
but not a bit the worse for that. There was an attempt, 
at first, to class it among the second best of its kind ; but 
that would not do—there would have been a rebellion at 
the shows at such monstrous taste. General Pellissier 
again is as lovely a Hose as one could pluck; but very 
likely a south wail would be too hot for it, as the petals 
are not so stout as some of them, and the delicate light- 
rose colour might be apt to get scorched in June’, like 
some of my best Nosegay Geraniums ; but I do not speak 
from experience about Pellissier standing the sun on a 
south wall. But General Simpson would be sure to 
succeed and do in all weathers against a wall. It is a 
peculiar soft red, as in some of the finer Ten-week Stocks, 
and, like Pellissier, is finely scented. Lord Raglan is a 
splendid pillar Hose, deep crimson, and mottled with 
scarlet—just the very best colour to stand the sun well. 
Jules Margottin is one of the finest pillar Hoses in the 
world, “ it blooms well, but does not attain any height ” 
with our fair correspondent at Durham ; but that must be 
from being a worked plant, and the soil does not suit the 
stock. After such Hoses get common, any man who 
works them otherwise than on their own root3 should be 
taken up for wilful murder. Jules Margottin not attaining 
to any size! 
“ Madam Rivers,” also, “docs not attain any height” 
with this lady at Durham. Surely her Roses are ou the 
Manetti, and are strangled or starved. Madam Rivers is 
one of the best growers we have, and would soon reach the 
top of an eight-feet wall, if it had its free liberty on its own 
roots. I am more than satisfied that ten thousand are 
just as badly off for Roses as those who have these pillar 
Roses dwarfed to the starvationpoiuton the Mauetti stock; 
and that brings me back to where I began—to the very 
economic point of the Manetti stock. Graft it in March, 
but, first of all, order lots of the Manetti stock at the end 
of November—not sooner, as it is a late grower; prune the 
heads down pretty close, and make cuttings of the shoots ; 
then put the stocks in by the heels, anywhere in the 
garden, and about Christmas, during fine, open weather, cut 
your grafts from the best Roses, taking the longest shoots, 
without shortening them. Put them in by the heels also, but 
under a north wall, so that the mild weather iu early spring 
does not move their sap; as it is best for all grafts to be 
a little behind the stock, iu the movement of the sap, at 
the time of grafting. In March do as our correspondent, 
Mr. Ruddock, did—take up the stocks, and take them in¬ 
doors, and graft them as he did, down close to the roots, 
I and after planting out, the stocks will soon get strangled, 
I instead of the grafts. The grafts will soon root on theii 
