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A New 'ology

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
April
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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Phenology is the term proposed for a study of the periods of blooming1 in flowers. In some parts of the world flowers appear with tolerable regularity - so much so that floral calendara have been based on the f act, and various flowers have been dedicated to saints and church festival days beeause of blooming at special fixed times. The snowdrop, for instance, is known in Catholic coun tries as "Purification flower," from its blooming on the fourth of February, the festival of the Purification. Our St. John's-wort is so named from its first flowers opening on St. John's day; and so of other flowers. In our climate, however, phenology will not have much show as a seience, except as it may show the unreliability of these ' times of flowering. There .is, at times, a month of difference between one season and another, and sometimes a flower that blooms the earliest of all one year will be f ar behind others in another year.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier