Book  (Sep 2020)  Page(s) 14. Vol 42, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Geoff Crowhurst.  Old Roses and a Different Slice of History Budding.
Over the years a number of different roses have been used as rootstocks. Manetti was raised in Italy by Guiseppe Manetti in 1835 and is classed as a hybrid Noisette. It became popular in the USA in the nineteenth century for growing bush roses, but not standards. The stems did not handle constant heat exposure well. In The Australasian Rose Book, (c. 1920) R G Elliott also recommended Manetti for use in southern Australia. Fiona Hyland, from Heritage Roses New Zealand, has written about the form Lippiatt’s Manetti (Lippiatt, pre 1890) that was a commonly used rootstock in NZ from the late 1800s to about 1930. She said the plant’s repeat flowering and powerfully fragrant blooms made it worth growing as a garden rose in its own right.
photo: Manetti as grown in WA. (Photo: Hillary Merrifield).  The pinker form in the eastern states is probably Lippiatt’s Manetti.

Newsletter  (Nov 2014)  Page(s) 11-12.  
 
The historical register of the district also includes a number of significant plantings, and among these are stands of roses planted by Lieutenant Edmund Du Cane, a young army engineer in charge of works in the Guildford area in the 1850s. One of Du Cane’s projects was the construction of Barker’s Bridge over the Swan River in Guildford, and when it was completed in 1854, he added roses to beautify the approaches. In a letter to his brother (15th October, 1854), Du Cane wrote, “I have planted roses all along the embankment approaching my bridge – and they have flowered already – and are splendid.” (Roses WA, Passmore, Morrissey and Kemp, 1993, p12). The roses Du Cane propagated and planted were all of the same variety--said to be an early form of ‘Manettii’ (Crivelli, 1835) which produces small, semi-double, violet-pink blooms with white eyes and yellow stamens in the spring time. It can be seen on HelpMeFind as "Manetti in Australia." (There are a number of roses going by the name ‘Manettii’, a confusion not helped by the former use of this name as a generic term for ‘rootstock’. Thus we sometimes see roses such as ‘Indica major’ or ‘Odorata’ named ‘Manettii’ or ‘The Manetti’.)

Magazine  (1998)  Page(s) 12. Vol 20, No. 1.  
 
John Nieuwesteeg. .
...yes. Rosa manettii is used as a rootstock. It appears to be very suitable under certain conditions, eg. Glasshouse.

Magazine  (1997)  Page(s) 39. Vol 19, No. 4.  
 
Peter Cox. Some Observations on Rose Gardens in Western Australia By an Easterner.
One rose that caused me confusion both here [Zephyr Brook, Pinjarra Heritage Rose Garden] and at Rose Marsh’s garden was a rose said to have been used as an understock at one time, labelled Manettii. ...... The variety of this rose in WA had twiggy prickly growth with small pink flowers and did not appear to me to be a rose to be used as an understock.

Magazine  (1997)  
 
Heritage Roses in Australia 3rd National Conference, Fremantle, Proceedings. John Viska. History of Rose Growing in western Australia.
p7. Many roses, especially Teas and Hybrid Perpetuals which produced large shoots from the base of the plants, were sold on their own roots. Budding onto stocks was practised from early on, with those most commonly used being R. indica major and Manettii. These had disadvantages in Perth’s predominantly sandy soil and Manettii did not suit Teas and the by-now popular Hybrid Teas. These rootstocks also tended to sucker.

p8. Questions were asked (of John Viska) about the identity of the stock rose Manettii, whose flowers seem to vary in colour and shape in different places and states.

Book  (1996)  Page(s) 122.  
 
R. noisettiana manettii (Manettii). Manetti. Italy. 1835. Shrub Pink. [available from:] Hilltop.

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 12.  
 
....was Lieutenant Edmund DuCane – another prominent figure in the early history of the settlement of Western Australia. As an army engineer, DuCane was constructive in the early development of Guildford. His bridge over the Swan River aided transit to the farms and the vineyards of the Middle Swan. On writing to his brother Arthur in England on 15 October, 1854, he says: “I have a rose which sprung from a little cutting thrown down by chance last year which covers a space of about 7 feet square and is growing amazingly fast – some shoots about an inch a day. I have planted roses all along the embankment approaching my bridge – and they have flowered already – and are splendid.”

Book  (1991)  Page(s) 118.  
 
David Ruston The Fourth World Heritage Rose Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.
.....as well as an unknown hybrid china with mauve pink flowers which we were told was ‘Manetti’ - much different from our plants of this variety - I wonder who is correct?

Magazine  (1991)  Page(s) 22. Vol 13, No. 2.  
 
Glenda Pearson, Upper Swan., WA Rootstocks.
The most common rootstock to be found (and, incidentally, the rose that causes the most disappointment, when you are told by local inhabitants, about that “wonderful old rose down the road”) is Manettii. I have also found Manetti described as a “dog rose” and it is incorrectly labelled as a R x fortuniana on a road outside Toodyay .

Magazine  (1990)  Page(s) 13. Vol 12, No. 1.  
 
Hillary Merrifield, Western Australia. 
...In a detour on the way back to York, we saw a colourful display of the stock rose Manettii which had spread for many meters along the road, showing its vigour and hardiness enabling it to survive in the harsh West Australian climate when old roses budded on to it have perished. No wonder we call it the “everywhere” rose.