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alec of our New York climate causes wide differences in 
time of flowering from year to year. The following blooming 
dates for shrubs in the New York Botanical Garden shows 
this: 
1922 20 Igl7 
Cercis chinensis...... ... ... May 8 May 16 May 25 
Viburnum tomentosum........... 
The preparation one season for the next season’s bloom is a 
process only secondary in interest to that of actual flowering 
spring's blo Whether the buds, developed in a 
terminal or ane the sides of the branches, they are = nei ie 
in various ways, and are ready to hae with the first warmth 
from the spring sun. Some do this to their sorrow, if they 
encounter that enemy of the peach crop, are te frost. 
We consider the Japanese ae -hazel, Hamamelis japonica, 
to be our first shrub to bloom. In all truth it aa be called 
a winter bloomer, occasionally showing in January, but usually 
in the latter part of February, especially if ae days of con- 
with which the small blossoms are born gives us a m. 
yellow color at a time when we have as yet no leaves or large 
