Inroads are also being made by spring green, forsythia yellow and turquoise, worn below by five women visiting New York from California.

William Forsyth, a botanist (yellow forsythia named after him) and ancestor of Bruce Forsyth.

Look, but Don't Smell Q. One occasionally hears that the yellow forsythia is the "official" flower of Brooklyn.

The sidewalk cafes were filled, and yellow forsythia and daffodils were blooming on grassy knolls and gardens.

Meanwhile, a big yellow forsythia, one of the first shrubs to bloom in early spring, is standing around looking awfully confused.

The grass was greener, the locusts a pretty pale lime, the forsythia bright yellow, the evergreens fresh.

Spring, in fact, was 46 days off - a small square of hope on the calendar that yesterday seemed as distant as bright yellow forsythia and apple green shoots.

'Just look at the brilliance of that yellow forsythia - and did you ever see such a border of anemones?'

A shock of yellow forsythia blazed nearby.

HE then added deciduous bushes and trees for color and blossom - yellow forsythia for spring and a burning bush for fall.