LATE AND EARLY SWEDES.

Ubjoined is an interesting piece of foreign parliamentary intelligence which appeared the other day in the columns of a contemporary, under the head of Sweden:-

“Baron Creutz proposed that from the age of fifteen young girls should be allowed to answer of their own accord yes or no to any suitor for thoir hand. M Montgomery opposed the project, declaring that, at the age of twenty-five was indispensable to be able to see clearly in so important a question.”

Swedes come on early, if there is any ground of reason for the proposal of Baron Creutz. Southern plants are known to shoot up at about the age which he would fix for the maturity of the Swedish species of turnip. If his estimate is correct, Juliets are in higher latitudes then they have heretofore been supposed to flourish in.

On the other hand, supposing the view of M. Montgomery to be well-founded, the Swede must be a vegetable of slowish growth. At twenty-five in this country such produce has passed be four years the term at which it becomes capable of disposing of itself, and is marketable by the grower at still earlier period. The truth probably lies between Creutz and Montgomery; and the fair average Swede attains to its full capacity at nearly the same age with the British tuber.

If Baron Creutz would import some of his fine early Swedes into this country, they might find purchasers; and would constitute highly attractive features at our agricultural exhibitions and cattle-shows.

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