MAY. 
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MADAME FUETADO (EOSE). 
(Plate 176 ). 
Ah me! we live in a puzzling age, when the ordinary means 
of intelligence are rapid enough, but far outstripped by the 
extraordinary. How one was puzzled in the Crimean war 
to read telegrams giving a slight sketch of events, and then a 
fortnight afterwards getting the details, hut before they 
arrived to find that another telegram quite upset them ; so the 
other day we had a long account of the conciliatory measures 
adopted by the Emperor of Eussia towards the Poles, and as 
we were reading it (much to our own satisfaction) a telegram 
is announced that a massacre had taken place, and the concilia¬ 
tion was that of bullets and bayonets; so in Eoses growers 
get a-head at such telegraphic speed that we are quite puzzled. 
We are just thinking over the Eoses of last year, determining 
which we shall retain and which reject, asking our friends their 
“’sperience” in the matter, when lo ! we have a Eose of a newer 
brood altogether put into our hands, and we are asked what 
we think of it. (Prowers now get over to France, and obtain 
their plants of new sorts much earlier in the season; they then 
work away at grafting, and by pushing them on in a strong 
yet moist heat are enabled to have them in bloom at this early 
season, and to advertise them for sale. But let no one who 
has not a warm place to put them in venture to purchase just 
at present. They are not hardened off, and to place them in a 
cold greenhouse without a fire is almost certain to subject 
them to mildew if not to death, the shock consequent on the 
change of temperature being too great for them in their highly 
excited state; for the same reason it is hazardous to venture 
an opinion on them, as they cannot be in character and their 
after state may very much differ from what they are now. This 
much, however, I think may be said, that those which show 
themselves good in the graft are very unlikely to disappoint 
afterwards. If they come full and of good shape they will 
most likely, under a more natural course of treatment, fully 
maintain, if not exceed, their character in those points. Colour 
of course it is difficult to decide about, and habit still more so, 
though shrewd guesses may be given on these points. 
Thej:e are amazing efforts being made on all hands to get 
forward with a stock of Eoses on their own roots, and I am 
quite inclined to think that the well-known intelligence of our 
gardening world will lead to the remedying of the only defect 
under which the system labours, the length of time before they 
make good plants. We shall see; but I shall be very much 
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