昔も今も「花桃」が咲く季節は不変

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　昨日は旧暦で３月３日ですから、江戸時代なら「桃の節句」でした。女の子が誕生した家ではお雛様を飾ったのでしょう。ご覧の通り、今の時季に庭では「源平枝垂れ桃」が咲いています。この花桃は次女の長女の誕生を祝って植えました。彼女はもう小学４年生です。

　明治５年に、旧暦では欧米との文化・経済交流の不都合から日本も今までの太陰太陽暦から太陽暦に変わりました。しかし、太陽高度や日照時間は変化しないので、昔も今の時季に桃の花が咲いていたのでしょう。

　それにしても不思議です。何故、１本の木であるのに花が紅白に咲き分けるのでしょう。しかも、先日書きましたように、この木の子供は紅白とは限らず、メンデルの「遺伝の法則」通り、紅のみがあり、現在私はそれを育ててます。また、絞りが生まれ、こちらも育ててます。

　今年もたくさん子供がこの木の下で生えてます。しかし、何色になるかは未だわからず、開花は数年後の楽しみです

Dear my friends abroad

　The simultaneous interpretation for your understanding will be after my dinner in Japan time.

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　Yesterday was March 3rd in the lunar calendar, so in the Edo period in Japan it would have been held the Peach Festival. So the hina dolls were probably displayed in the house where the girl was born. As you can see, Bicolored Genpei weeping peach" is blooming in the garden this season. I planted this flower peach to celebrate the birth of my second daughter's eldest daughter. She is already in the fourth grade of elementary school.

　In the 5th year of Meiji,1872 Japan also changed from the lunar-solar calendar to the solar calendar due to the inconvenience of cultural and economic exchange with Europe and America, if using the lunar calendar. However, since the sun's altitude and daylight hours do not change, peach blossoms must have bloomed at this season of the year as well.

　It's still strange. Why do the flowers bloom in different colors of red and white even though it is just one tree? Moreover, as I wrote the other day, the children of this tree are not necessarily red and white, in accordance with Mendel's "laws of inheritance," there is only red, and I am currently raising that. Also, dapple was born and I am also raising it.

　There are many saplings growing under this tree this year as well. However, I still don't know what color it will be, and I am looking forward to seeing it bloom in a few years.

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