Over a quarter of a century ago, no nurseryman in America could get enough Manetti stock to supply the demand, but they have long been wholly abandoned. The American florist of today hardly knows what the Manetti stock is. It was not that is was not a good stock for the rose, but the tendency to sucker was so strong, and the leaves and growth so much like "tame roses," that the majority of amateurs, and many florists did not find out that they had only the "wild things" left, till every graft had died. People would not buy a grafted plant at any price, and hence the stock went into oblivion. It seems very strange to those not acquainted with the slow progress of the experience of "foreigners" through the British Islands to have the rose growers of that region paying for their experience as freely as if it was all wholly new. The Garden now tells us :

" It is, in fact, a great mistake for amateurs to grow roses on the Manetti stock, for the following reason : One day a gentleman asked me for advice about his roses. He said three years ago he bought six dozen rose bushes; they flowered well the first year, but he got very few flowers afterwards. I went with him to see them, and from what I saw in his garden I thought he was a clever man. It was a beautiful place, and he appeared, to be quite a judge of a good many things; but when we came to the roses I discovered they were not rose trees at all, they were Manetti stocks; indeed, there were only one or two pieces of rose to be seen."