JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XIV February, 1913 No. 158 
WINTER FLOWERING 
The high temperature of the present winter, unprecedented in 
weather records, has been remarkable, and has forced a number 
of plants into bloom out of their normal season. The most 
marked instance of this is Corylus pontica. A nee specimen of 
this in the fruticetum, an illustration of which accompanies this 
article, was in full blo n January 24, and still continues 
in flower. The no ee time ao flowering of this species about 
here is late in March or early April. On December 19 a plant 
of Forsythia intermedia in the fice was noted with about 
a dozen flowers fully expanded, its normal flowering period here- 
abouts being at the end of April or early in May. The following 
ee normally ee in late aie or early May 
scattering flowers as late as January : Cydonia pam 
pan Fence eee cue Rus aromatica; and 
Spiraea Thunbergii. Daphne Mezereum, with a normal flowering 
period in this neighborhood of early April, was nee in ae on 
the above date. Ribes fasciculatum and Ribes diacantha, 
latter an early May bloomer, at the same time had well- sleveoped 
leaf-buds, so that a decided greenish tinge s given to the 
plants. The only one of the bulbous Re a in bloom 
was Galanthus nivalis, the oe a few scattering flowers in 
various parts of the gro 
This abnormal ae may be a matter of considerable 
interest, but the phase of it which particularly interests the 
[JouRNAL for December, 1912 (13: 169-215), was issued elas 4 es 
{JournaL for January, 1913 (14: 1-42) was issued February 13, 3] 
