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DR. JULIAN HUXLEY'S letter1 describing the late flowering of horse-chestnut in Paris this autumn brought back to me a vivid memory of autumn 1912. I turned up my youthful diary and found this entry: "Paris, 3rd September, 1912. The trees are in a queer state here; the old leaves are dead and falling as in autumn and at the same time new shoots and flowers are borne on the same trees, particularly on the horse-chestnuts in the Champs Elysées." There are few records of weather in the diary but an earlier entry of the same day reads: "We went through the Luxembourg Gardens where the lawns were being watered ! (the first time I have seen grass watered this year !)". And on the day before, it had seemed worth while to enter: "It rained a little".
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Nature, 156, 574 (1945).
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BLACKWELL, E. Late Flowering of Horse-Chestnut. Nature 156, 721 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156721a0
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