1.   And it is the first blossom that this root has sent forth in many years.

2.   And that awakening is the first tender blossom of moral character.

3.   Barely a month passes from the time the first cherry blossom opens to the time the last dogwood petal flutters to the ground.

4.   Q. I have heard that you should give tomatoes and peppers a watering with Epsom salts as soon as the first blossoms appear.