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LAST summer I sent you a note on the occurrence of apple-blossoms and the blossoms of the mountain ash in July. Before me now, as I write, is a simple but elegant bouquet containing a beautiful and fragrant corymb of the latter tree in full flower, side by side with one of the ripe scarlet fruit, which the blackbirds have begun to devour. These were cut from one and the self-same tree this morning at the top of my garden; while from an adjoining tree was gathered a twig carrying four pinnate leaves from which all the chlorophyll has disappeared; the phenomena which mark the beginning and the end of the season thus appearing side by side. These trees grows on the Upper Bagshot Sands, and I have no doubt that this reduplication of seasonal growth is due to the later rains developing some centres of flowering energy in the plant, which had remained dormant during the spring owing to deficiency of moisture and warmth.
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IRVING, A. Reduplication of Seasonal Growth. Nature 44, 371 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044371b0
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