. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 356 The American Florist, Mar. I J, OUR PASTIMES. Theories as to Spring:. "Spring—The first cf the four seasons ot the year; the season in which plants be- gin to vegetate and rise ; the vernal season ; h'ence. figuratively the first and freshest period of any time or ;—The Century Dictionary. "Spring—The season ot the year when plants hegin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March. April and May in the mid- dle latitudes north of the equator. &quo
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 356 The American Florist, Mar. I J, OUR PASTIMES. Theories as to Spring:. "Spring—The first cf the four seasons ot the year; the season in which plants be- gin to vegetate and rise ; the vernal season ; h'ence. figuratively the first and freshest period of any time or ;—The Century Dictionary. "Spring—The season ot the year when plants hegin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March. April and May in the mid- dle latitudes north of the equator. " 'The green lap ot the new-come spring.'— ;—Webster's International Dictionary. "Spring—The season preceding summer, in which seeds sprout and vegetation starts anew. In the northern temperate zone it is held to include the months ot March, April and May, especially April and ;—The Standard Dictionary. The manifest interest taken in the oificial announcement that spring has arrived in- dicates that the average Chicago resident will make every effort to look for traces of the phenomenon and endeavor to iden- tify it. There is much that is plausible in the Idea that the spring mentioned by the weather man is the same as that alluded to by the authorities cited above. At any rate the apparent difficulty of reconciling the definitions with existing physical condi- tions should not be allowed to preclude this theory. Setting aside the random and evidently inadvertent stat?ment that "seeds sprout and vegetation starts anew," it will be found that the spring discovered by tlie weather man and the spring of the lexi- cographers have several features In com- mon. This is March. These are the "mid- dle latitudes north of the ; It is entirely reasonable to assume, also, that this is the season "preceding summer," for It certainly is not the season following summer. Since Chicago last had a sum- mer there have be
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