BLOWING, among gardeners, denotes the action of flowers, whereby they open and display their leaves. In which sense, blowing amounts to much the same with flowering or blossoming *.
The regular blowing season is in the spring; though some plants have other extraordinary times and manners of blowing, as the Glastebury thorn. Divers flowers
flowers also, as the tulip, close every evening, and blow again in the morning. Annual plants blow sooner or later, as their seeds are put in the ground; whence the curious in gardening sow some every month in summer, to have a constant succession of flowers. The blowing of roses may be retarded by shearing off the buds as they put forth.