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Autumn Flowering
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Autumn Flowering

  • JOSEPH JOHN MURPHY1 

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REFERRING to your article on autumn flowering (p. 13), I may mention that my garden primroses are now flowering again, and a laburnum is in flower in the garden of one of the houses on this road. I was in Paris in September 1861, and saw many horse-chestnuts in flower. The summer of 1861 was unusually warm and dry on the Continent, though I believe not in the British Islands.

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MURPHY, J. Autumn Flowering. Nature 31, 54 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031054a0

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