Sentences with phrase «in early flowering»

Long - term flowering records in Massachusetts, started by Henry David Thoreau, reveal that high spring temperatures in 2010 and 2012 resulted in the earliest flowering in the eastern U.S. in recorded history.

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To even suggest a flower could bring down a whole economy seems, to reasonable minds, an absurdity, but that is exactly what happened in Holland in the early 1600s.

Third and fourth reads of the text have proven to be useful in understanding the «downfall» of the early church; roots of error and departure from NT expectations for a local assembly that have bloomed into flowers with an unpleasant aroma that must be a stench in the nostrils of God.

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardener.

I stood in front of the too - early flower display and called my husband over, «Look, pansies,» I said because purple pansies with gold hearts are my Granny's favourite flower, they're her icon, and we were driving to her.

From carefully chosen prayer books and collecting flowers to put in front of statues, to trips to Aylesford Priory and quiet early morning Masses on holiday, the love of God was woven into the fabric of their everyday lives.

The early days of April in British Columbia are filled with flowers and beauty, green growth and warm days.

When he died he weighed sixty pounds, the paper says, and I go out of my way to drive by the address where his brother locked him in the closet, wondering at the blue door, the flower boxes, wondering where the fury started, how early and how hidden the first bruise awaking like a bat, dark wings....

Aging cream - colored bungalows, their arched verandas burdened with vines, were surrounded by a geometry of flower gardens and thick trees; early missionaries must have found the only eucalyptus grove in Jullundur.

It was one of the earliest triumphs of «the weaker brethren,» those innocent sheep who by mere volume of imbecility have trampled over many delicate and attractive flowers in Christendom.

Such diagnostic thinking was spurred, early in this century, when paresis (or general paralysis, as it was called) was found to be a late - flowering — usually after ten years or so — result of syphilitic infection.

«38 By the 1760s, however, this ethical unity no longer obtained because Puritan theology itself contained the seeds of pluralism; the Great Awakening was but the early eighteenth - century flowering of those seeds, leading to religious diversity in New England.

As early as the mid-third century Origen of Alexandria [9] had urged that the actions enjoined by scripture constitute a «practice» that begins a spiritual journey and comprises the Christian life of most people in time; it flowers into pure contemplation in the afterlife as the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practice.

Already in the early 19th century, Hungarian Prince Esterhazy designed the present - day courtyard and planted precious exotic and domestic flowers.

Violet flowers appear in early spring and are often found along forest edges.

Gifford sent flowers earlier in the week; the Bednarik family was told Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning planned on writing them a letter.

It's Sunday night in early summer, and if you're a baseball parent, I bet you didn't get the flowers planted on the front porch this weekend, or even the lawn mowed.

I've decided that being barefoot in the garden early in the morning, still in my pajamas, gathering flowers to bring inside might just be one of my favorite things in this life.

Condi was supported by others earlier as being a shock and awe VP choice.It won't happen.She has expressed no interest in being a public candidate, and likely would be very bad at it.In many ways, she is a delicate flower; and would not easily survive in the political garden of vipers.And what would she add to the GOP ticket?A slight tick up for black voters?

Planted in the fall as a winter cover crop, rapeseed flowers in the early spring.

Ancient phytoplankton and pollen grains nestled in the sediment date the early butterfly fossils to roughly 200 million years ago, researchers report today in Science Advances, whereas flowering plants began growing across the landscape only about 140 million to 160 million years ago.

An uninterrupted sequence of fossilized pollen from flowers begins in the Early Cretaceous, approximately 140 million years ago, and it is generally assumed that flowering plants first evolved around that time.

But the present study documents flowering plant - like pollen that is 100 million years older, implying that flowering plants may have originated in the Early Triassic (between 252 to 247 million years ago) or even earlier.

These beautifully preserved 240 - million - year - old pollen grains are evidence that flowering plants evolved 100 million years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study in the open - access journal Frontiers in Plant Science.

The researchers also reconstructed what flowers looked like at all the key divergences in the flowering plant evolutionary tree, including the early evolution of monocots (e.g., orchids, lilies, and grasses) and eudicots (e.g., poppies, roses, and sunflowers), the two largest groups of flowering plants.

As the mining boom waned in the early 20th century, local communities turned to other subsistence activities, including flower collecting.

To avoid scrutiny in the early 2000s, they were coding their product as «dried foliage» rather than «dried flowers.»

He was there on the chilly North Slope at the top of the continent to study moss campion, a low, flat plant that explodes with pink flowers in early summer.

There are countless examples of how global warming is affecting life, from plants flowering earlier in spring, to species spreading to areas that were once too cold for them to survive, to birds becoming smaller.

Although there was a general trend toward earlier flowering dates and a longer growing season, individual species» responses were distinct, and changes within a species in first, peak, and last flowering dates shifted independently of one other.

The fossil, taken from amber mines in Myanmar, dates 97 - 110 million years ago to the early - to - mid Cretaceous, when the land was still dominated by dinosaurs and conifers, but the earliest flowering plants, grasses and small mammals were beginning to evolve.

Cornell's plant experts estimate that Carolus could flower in early to mid-August, but there is no prior data with which to predict how it will acclimate to conditions and variables such as rain, changing light, and the risk of severe weather that could disrupt growth or even cause the plant to not fully develop.

«Earliest evidence of using flower beds for burial found in Raqefet Cave in Mt. Carmel.»

The earliest evidence of using flower beds for burial, dating back to 13,700 years ago, was discovered in Raqefet Cave in Mt. Carmel (northern Israel), during excavations led by the University of Haifa.

The highest number of pesticides accumulated in the colonies early on, shortly after beekeepers placed colonies into early season flowering crops like apples and blueberries.

While the majority of angiosperm species disperse their pollen in this early, bicellular, stage of sexual maturity, about 30 % of flowering plants disperse their pollen in a more mature fertile stage, consisting of three cells (a body and two sperm cells).

The study focused on the removal of the flowers of the invasive shrub Prosopis juliflora, which is native to Central and South America but was introduced to new areas in the late 1970's and early 1980's as an attempt to reverse deforestation.

In the early stages of plant regeneration, plants benefit from the interaction with animals: bees pollinate flowers and maintain gene flow among plant populations, while birds disperse seeds that can establish as seedlings at new locations.

The researchers then went to an intermediate elevation and simulated climate change by reducing the snowpack, which made the plants flower seven days early, similar in magnitude to flowering time shifts over 20 to 30 years of climate change.

Seventy - eight percent of 542 plant species studied flowered and fruited earlier in the year.

In effect, the plants had shifted to flowering a few days earlier to take full advantage of the short «wet» season in dry yearIn effect, the plants had shifted to flowering a few days earlier to take full advantage of the short «wet» season in dry yearin dry years.

Leaves and flowers are expected particularly early in the Pacific Northwest and mountainous western US, which could affect migratory animals that depend on plants for food (Environmental Research Letters, DOI: 10.1088 / 1748-9326/10 / 10 / 104008).

Jud is studying the change that began 140 million years ago in the Early Cretaceous period, when plant communities of ferns gave way to a world dominated by flowering plants.

Throughout the world, warming earlier in spring has induced plants to flower, trees to bud, insects to appear and birds to breed accordingly.

Willows are dioecious with male and female flowers appearing as catkins on different plants; the catkins are produced early in the spring, often before the leaves or as the new leaves open.

For every two species lost in a grassland, the remaining flowers there bloomed a day earlier — on par with changes due to rising global temperatures.

Other traits reported as changed over time included earlier flowering time, which has resulted in an expanded reproductive period.

«The fossilized flowers provide a new window into the earliest Paleocene communities in South America, and they are giving us the opportunity to compare the response to the extinction event on different continents,» said Nathan Jud, the paper's first author and a postdoctoral researcher in Maria Gandolfo's lab, a senior research associate at the L.H. Bailey Hortorium and a co-author of the paper.

The flowers reminded Teeri, who has studied plant pigments at the University of Helsinki, of blooms created in a landmark gene - engineering experiment some 30 years earlier.

A member of his team even discovered the orange flowers in a centerpiece at a graduation party earlier this month.