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SEVERAL interesting letters have recently appeared in these columns directing attention to the abnormal number of phanerogams in flower at the present time in Gloucestershire and other counties. In Somerset we have a similar increase in the number of plants flowering, as compared with the average January, and this month is not the only winter one in which such an increase has occurred. During the latter part of November I noticed more than eighty indigenous plants in flower, and many of these I considered to be survivals due to the retarding influence of the cold and wet summer followed by the cold and frosty nights of October. For the past two years the paucity of flowers in the early part of October has been particularly noticeable, but how different were the causes! In 1911 the flowering period had been accelerated by the large amount of sunshine, whilst in 1912 it was retarded or altogether eliminated owing to the lack of sunshine. In both years November was a happy month for flowers, in the first year the flowers being largely second blooms, in the last year retarded first blooms.
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WATSON, W. Flowers in January. Nature 90, 622 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090622b0
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