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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Febbttaby 21, 1860. 
and in some particular places ? Are not the ungrateful men 
aware, that for years it has been willing to do anything they 
wanted ? If it were not neglected, is it not willing to grow at any 
time, either winter or summer ? When it is called upon, has it 
not been hacked, and cut, and slashed in all sorts of ways, and 
yet it grows ? And, after all, the only fault that is found with 
it is that it grows too fast and too luxuriantly; in fact, throws 
off, and leaves the puny bantling that is put upon it. Yery well: 
W e know that it does so in many cases ; but can we ever have an 
advantage without some drawback ? I fear not. One gentleman 
says, “ ‘There,’ said my friend the gardener, ‘look, how well the 
dwarfs have done ; and although they have not flowered, they 
have made so much wood they must necessarily do so next year.’ ” 
Rut, alas! poor innocent man, it was all the poor Manetti; and 
he further says, that his own did not even grow a few buds for 
him. His experience and mine differ very much ; but I will at 
once say, that I grant that all the Roses would do better on their 
own roo(s ; but how few possess the requisite knowledge that 
would lead them to prefer the small and puny-looking things that 
they would get for the same price as they get strong plants for, 
on the Manetti! Ycry few, indeed, can resist the temptation 
of a large plant, whether it be a Rose or anything else, when the 
price is the same ; but could new Roses be had for anything like 
the same money, if it were not for the Manetti, by those who 
' cannot afford to give a larger price ? I think not; and as experience 
is the best, I will just tell what I did last summer by the aid of 
this poor “ bubble ” that is so much abused. 
In the early part of July, I procured one plant of Oriflamme de 
St. Louis , and one of Anna de Liesback. They had been grafted* 
(and very short grafts too), perhaps in February, and had flowered, 
and if 1 had turned them out after they had been pushed on so fast, 
perhaps tney would not- have done much ; but I wanted them for 
Y particular purpose, and I nursed them, and they answered it. 
Tou sec, by the aid ot the Manetti I was enabled to get the plants 
at a time when, perhaps, if they had been struck, they would 
just about have got a bit of root—that would have been all. Of 
Oriflamme de St. Louis I put four buds on one Dog Rose 
standard, and three on another, all of which grew; and I budded 
six Manettis with single buds, all of which I have now growing 
in pots. Of Anna de Liesback, I have also two standards on 
Dog Rose, and four dwarfs on Manetti; further, I got last 
December one plant on Manetti of Anna Alexiejfl. I got three 
grafts from it, which I grafted on my poor friend on the 4-th 
January, 1860, along with one graft from one of the standards of 
Oriflamme de St. Louis budded last summer; and all four are 
now showing leaves and growing right away. 
Well, now, six plants of Oriflamme, four of Anna de Liesback, 
and three of Anna Alexiejfl. Are they not nice small change for a 
bit of trade among my friends, on the give-and-take system; and 
how could I have had them but for the Manetti ? And is this 
nothing in its favour? I had sent, from near London, last summer, 
some buds of Tea-scented Roses, and I have now in the greenhouse 
in bud,and as luxuriant as theyneed b e,Auguste Vaclier, Goubault, 
Madame Willermoz, Saflrano, and Nipketos. Cannot I get cut¬ 
tings from them now ? and is it not the cheapest and best way I 
could have had them, to bud them on the Manetti, and do as I 
like afterwards ? 
But when you work on the Dog Rose, do they never die? I 
think they do. I planted seven standards (Dog Rose), and six 
dwarfs (Manetti), on one bed in 1854 ; the standards are all gone 
except one, some time ago, and three of the dwarfs, Robin Mood, 
Lr. Arnold, and Rivers, are bushes 2 feet high and 2 feet through. 
But I must stop. What I contend for is, that the Manetti has 
been a great boon to growers, by enabling them to sell more Roses, 
and sell them cheaper; but it is to amateurs like myself that 
it has done most, by enabling us to get new Roses, and for less 
money, and larger plants from which we can increase our stock as 
we like; and I have no doubt but it has done much to encourage 
and foster the wide-spread interest and pleasure with which the 
Rose is now cultivated.— W. P. Ruddock, York Cemetery. 
VARIOUS QUESTIONS. 
“ I live in such a remote district, that I can only hope to 
make a small greenhouse, 12 feet by 10 feet, gay by buyiim some 
seeds.”—Wis. ° 
1. “ Will Diosma, grow from seed ?” Yes. Sow in sandy peat 
in a sweet hotbed, in March ; or sow in April, in the greenhouse, 
and cover the pot with a square of glass until t he seedlings arc well 
up. Then prick off four or five round the sides of a four-inch 
pot. These are chiefly interesting for the scent of the foliage 
and flowers. You could not have plants of much size from seeds 
under two or three years’ growth. The plants are generally 
hardy, requiring merely to have a temperature a few degrees 
above freezing iu winter. Loam and heath soil grow them well. 
2. “ Will Commelina codestis flower this year from seeds sown 
in February ? ” Yes, if sown in a hotbed, pricked off and 
hardened off, by standing in the greenhouse until the end of 
May, and then transplanted into rich light soil out of doors. If 
there is no hotbed, it will be time enough to sow in the greenhouse 
in the middle of March, and most likely the plants would bloom 
in the autumn, in the greenhouse. The roots in either case Kept 
over the winter in sand, as you would keep Dahlia roots, will 
bloom next season earlier and stronger, whether planted out in 
May, or kept in a cool greenhouse. Well grown the beautiful 
blue of these flowers is very striking. When once strong roots 
are established, the soil must not.be too rich or strong; rank 
foliage will injure the effect of the flowers. 
3. “ Must Mandevilla suaveolens be planted in the ground, or 
will it grow in a pot ? ” Either way; but if there is a good length 
of rafters to cover, the pot would require to be large ultimately. 
Be sure of good drainage, and grow in loam and sandy peat. The 
finest plant I ever saw was at Stockwood. It has already been 
alluded to in these pages. One-half of the range was devoted to 
stove, and the other division to greenhouse plants. The Man¬ 
devilla was planted out at the middle division, and the stem 
taken along a wire longitudinally for nearly the length of the 
house, and when in bloom the plant was an immense white 
wreath. The flowering shoots were spurred back every winter. 
4. “What is Solanum capsicastrum '! ” This is a neat little 
plant, chiefly valuable for producing in abundance its pretty little 
fruit in autumn and winter. It requires similar treatment to a 
Capsicum. Sow the seeds in a hotbed in March, or in the green¬ 
house in the middle of April. Brick off the seedlings, pot singly, 
and repot in a larger pot when necessary. Rich sandy loam will 
suit it well. 
5. “Is Quamoclit eoccinea pretty?” Yes. It is sometimes 
called Lpomcea quamoclit, and also, I believe, Ipomcea coccinea; 
but you will do little good with it, unless you can sow it in a 
hotbed in March. Brick off, pot off, and keep there until the 
middle of May, and then place and grow it in a warm corner of 
the greenhouse. Such plants would do equally well in a warm 
place out of doors in August and September. To get it to bloom 
well, you must forward it more in spring than you can do in a 
common greenhouse. 
6. “I saw Ipomcea rubro-ccerulea in 1858, at Northwold, 
growing on the kitchen-garden wall, covering an Apricot tree, 
with 140 flowers open. Will it do in a greenhouse in a flower¬ 
pot ? ” Yes—but I should have been inclined to pity the Apricot 
tree. A great many rather tender things will do better for two 
or three months in sheltered places out of doors than they will 
do in houses under glass. The last time I grew this beautiful 
plant was many years ago, and in a smoky corner of the largest 
city in the world. One plant against a wall bloomed pretty well, 
and allowed to grow pretty much as it liked. I had three 
plants in pots, in a little greenhouse, treated differently, some 
grew against a rafter, some round a trellis, &c.; but one mode of 
treatment beat all the others, and this only will I mention. The 
seeds were sown in a hotbed in March, and the seedlings potted 
off as soon as liandable in small 60’s. As soon as these were full 
ol roots, the plants had another shift, and a little stick put to each . 
plant. All the little shoots that appeared were nipped off exceptthe 
one leading shoot. By the time these pots were getting full—say 
the first week in May, the plants were removed to the warmest 
end of the greenhouse, and were shifted into a size larger pot. 
To encourage the shoot to wind itself, one end of a string was 
secured to the little stick spoken of, and the other end to a rafter 
in the house. As soon as the pots were filled with roots again, 
I shifted the plants finally into fifteen-inch pots, and shortly 
afterwards began to train the plants as I desired. Thbse that 
were to grow on a rafter had the pot set beneath it, and the 
string was fastened to and along the wire. Those that were to 
grow round a barrel-like trellis had the string ivith its strong 
one main shoot tied round the trellis. When the plant had filled 
the allotted space, the pinching-out of the point of the one main 
shoot caused abundance of lateral shoots to grow freely, which 
bloomed abundantly. If you keep all the shoots that come at 
first, you will soon cover a trellis or a rafter; but there is no 
method I have tried equal to the above for getting dense 
