Magazine  (26 Jun 1897)  Page(s) 231.  
 
M. Charles Baltet, l'horticulteur et pomologue bien connue de Troyes, a adressé à la Société Nationale d'Horticulture  de France un mémoire..."Étude comparative des différents sujets propres au greffage des Rosiers". ...
Le R. Manetti a l'avantage de se prêter au bouturage d'automne ou de printemps et de mettre au service des Rosiers forcés sous verre la végétation prompte et active de sa jeunesse. Ajoutons qu'il seconde momentanément la multiplication des nouveautés en hiver.
Mais il faiblit devant la gelée, ne peut s'élever en forte tige qui se soutienne d'elle-même; ses rejets du collet l’épuisent.

Book  (1893)  Page(s) 562.  
 
Manetti hort. Manettis Monats rose. Angeblich von Crivelli in Florenz in den dreissiger Jahren aus Samen erzogen. Von kräftigerem Wuchse, mit halbgefüllten, heller oder dunkler rosafarbenen, auf dicht borstigdrüsigen Stielen stehenden Blumen.

Translation:
Manetti hort. Manetti's monthly rose. Supposedly raised from seeds by Crivelli in Florence in the 1830s. Of vigorous growth, with semi-double, light or dark pink flowers on densely bristly stems.

Website/Catalog  (1878)  Page(s) 260.  
 
Roses.
Manetti.

Magazine  (1876)  
 
Origin of the Manetti Rose.
— Referring to the origin of the Manetti Rose, a recent issue of the Journal des Roses states, that it was raised from seeds obtained from Persia by M. Manetti at the Botanic Garden of Monza, Italy. In 1837 some plants were sent to Mr. T. Rivers at Sawbridgeworth, by M. Crivelli of Como, Italy ; and it was introduced from England to France the 20th of March, 1840, by M. Portemar fils..

Magazine  (1875)  Page(s) 340.  
 
ROSIER MANETTI
D’où vient cette espèce, si c’en est une? Il nous paraît difficile de le dire, bien qu’on la suppose d’origine asiatique, de la Chine, croit-on. Tout ce que l’on sait sur ce Rosier, c’est qu’il est d’introduction relativement récente et qu’il est surtout employé comme sujet pour multiplier les espèces ou variétés commerciales ; ce qui le fait rechercher pour cet usage, c’est la grande vigueur et la facilité avec laquelle il reprend de bouture ; pourtant il a l’inconvénient de tracer énormément, ce qui, dans beaucoup'de cas, tend à en restreindre l’emploi. On s’accorde aussi à dire qu’il reçoit mal l’écusson, que ceux-ci reprennent difficilement sur lui. C’est surtout comme sujet pour les greffes forcées et pour être greffé en fente qu’on le cultive.
Mais ce n’est pas à ce point de vue que nous allons parler du Rosier Manetti et même en recommander la culture. C’est au point de vue de l’ornement et pour garnir promptement certaines parties de terrains où d’autres espèces viendraient difficilement ; son feuillage est, du reste, très-joli, et la plante a l’avantage d’être rarement attaquée par les insectes. Ce qui le recommande aussi, ce sont ses fleurs qui, réunies en bouquets, sont très-odorantes ; on les connaît peu, du reste, et l’on suppose même que ce Rosier en est assez avare, fait qui paraît vrai, mais qui est probablement dû au traitement auquel on le soumet, c’est-à-dire à l’état de p«tit buisson qu’on taille chaque année, ce qui est tout à fait le contraire de ce qu’il faudrait faire. A cause de sa grande vigueur, le Rosier Manetti doit être cultivé comme le Rosier multiflore ordinaire dont, au reste, il a un peu la végétation. Il faut lui laisser prendre beaucoup de développement et ne pas le tailler, mais se borner seulement à diriger ses rameaux et, au besoin, à lui donner une forme. Toutes les fois qu’on est obligé de le tailler, on doit faire ce travail aussitôt après la floraison terminée, et encore, si l’on coupe très-bas, il repousse des rameaux vigoureux qui fleurissent peu ou même ne fleurissent pas la première année. Les fleurs du Rosier Manetti naissent en petits groupes à l’extrémité des ramilles ; comme elles sont peu connues, nous allons les décrire. Les divisions du calice, longuement acuminées en folioles sétiformes, portent, ainsi que le pédoncule et l’ovaire, des poils courts, étalés, noirâtres; les pièces calicinales émettent soit sur les côtés, soit sur le dos, des sortes de bractées herbacées sétiformes simples, parfois ramifiées, qui semblent être des productions d’un organe analogue à un rameau. Quant aux fleurs, qui atteignent 5 centimètres, parfois plus, de diamètre, elles sont semi-pleines, de couleur rose carné tendre, très-agréablement odorantes ; les étamines nombreuses placées au centre relèvent encore la beauté par des filets blancs surmontés d’anthères d’un très-beau jaune d’or.
Le Rosier Manetti est très-rustique; il fleurit à partir de la deuxième quinzaine de mai.

Book  (1874)  Page(s) 19.  
 
....and the peculiar food-finding nature of the 'Manetti' which can live and thrive on gravelly, chalky and other poor soils on which brier roses would pine or perish. For the amateur, the 'Manetti' has one peculiar disadvantage. it is apt to throw up suckers, and if these are allowed to remain, they soon use up all the nourishment collected by the roots, and the consequence is that the rose perishes and the brier takes its place. a plantation of 'Manetti' roses, in which suckers have been allowed to rise unchecked, may thus become absolutely worthless in the course of two seasons; but the mischief is easily prevented by watching for the peculiar blue-leaved growth of the 'Manetti' stock, and the cutting away the suckers to the point from which they spring......

Website/Catalog  (1859)  
 
Manetti

Magazine  (Oct 1854)  Page(s) 252.  
 
Roses on the Manetti Stock.— I have lately seen the most beautiful little rose garden, in the picturesque grounds of J. Morris, Esq., at Sandgate, I ever beheld. Its history is as follows: for twenty years this spot had been appropriated to roses, and the soil, being very light and sandy, became at last so exhausted that roses budded on the dog-rose refused to grow, even with abundance of manure mixed with the soil. As a last effort, the ground was cleared of all the dead and dying roses last November, some manure was applied, and the soil was well stirred. Three hundred young dwarf rose trees, all budded on the Manetti, were then planted. Their luxuriance is now quite remarkable; I never saw such beautiful growth or finer flowers. So vigorous are their young shoots that they will, to a certainty (as they are nearly all hybrid perpetuals), give a succession of flowers till November. This, for a rose garden which has been planted barely nine months, is, I think, a fact worthy recording. It is indeed great encouragement for those, and there are many, who have failed in cultivating roses in light and exhausted soils. It is also most interesting and rare to see such beautiful roses thus flourishing only 200 yards from the sea. —Rosa.

Magazine  (1850)  Page(s) 71-2.  
 
"Rose Stocks" by John Saul, Durdham Down Nursery, Bristol.
(Communicated November 24, 1849.)
The Manetti stock claims attention next: it stands at the head of all cultivated stocks (not, of course, including the above [the Dog Rose]), and is very superior to the Crimson Boursault, Celine, &c. Its good properties consist in its free, vigorous, and continuous growth; in this latter property it is superior to every other stock, continuing to grow until it is stopped by the winter's cold; it also ripens its wood well, becomes hard, firm, not subject to decay, nor are the shoots gross and pithy. On dry, warm, or sandy soils it is the best of all stocks: I have also seen it succeed well on stiff soils not over wet: it is the best of all stocks for Hybrid Perpetuals, and they force well upon it. It suits Bourbons and Noisettes equally well, and many of the dwarf and delicate varieties of these classes which will not succeed upon the Dog-rose will grow admirably upon this. Teas and Chinas will grow better and live much longer upon it than on either the Crimson Boursault or Celine. I must not, however, be understood to say that no Teas or Chinas will succeed on the latter stocks; some of the free-growing kinds will do on it, and exist for a considerable time, but they would do better on the Manetti. Many delicate Teas and chinas, which will live only a year or two on Crimson Boursault and Celine, will thrive pretty well upon the Manetti; but they are much better worked upon the Rosa indica (common Monthly), or grown upon their own roots. This stock strikes as freely from cuttings as a willow. It was introduced from Italy by Mr. Rivers, and is worthy of the extensive cultivation he has given it.

Magazine  (24 Nov 1849)  Page(s) 743.  
 
The history of the Manettii stock is as follows. Some 12 or 15 years since a Signor Crivelli, of Como, attracted by an article in Loudon’s “Gardeners' Magazine,” wrote to me, offering to exchange some seedling Italian Roses for choice named varieties. I sent him a small collection, and in return received from him some seedling Roses; among them were Rosa indica grandiflora and Rosa indica Manettii, two very small plants. These he described as being hybrid China Roses, and most valuable Roses for stocks in the dry climate of Italy. I soon found that although so much alike in habit as scarcely to be distinguished, they differed most materially in this respect; the former could only be propagated by layers, while of the latter every cutting grew. I gradually increased my stock of the latter, and now propagate from 40,000 to 50,000 annually. As with all new articles in gardening, I had to buy some experience, for I found if I grew them in a rich soil and budded them at the usual period, the buds rotted; they appeared to be drowned in the superabundance of sap. At last I saw it was necessary to plant them in poor soils, and bud them in September.

I presume this stock has found favour in America, for last season I received an order from one house for 2000. 
Thos. Rivers.