first flush

Noun

broadly

(horticulture) The first growth of buds, flowers, seeds, or whatever is harvested from a plant. / (by extension) The beginning; the period of time when something is first starting.

Japanese Meaning

（園芸）植物から採れる最初の芽、花、実、種など、最初に収穫される部分。 / （拡張された意味で）何かが始まったばかりの段階、初期、始動期。

What is this buttons?

The tea farmer eagerly awaited the first flush each spring, knowing it would fetch the highest prices at market.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

茶農家は毎春の一番茶を心待ちにしており、それが市場で最も高値で取引されることを知っていた。

Details

Sense（1）

(horticulture) The first growth of buds, flowers, seeds, or whatever is harvested from a plant.

But, because the first flush of growth is from a preformed bud and subsequent flushes are from buds developed during the current growing season, chilling directly affects only the first flush.

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Details

Sense（2）

(by extension) The beginning; the period of time when something is first starting.

When however the first flush of our surprize is over we cannot fail to perceive that amid all this legerdemain there is a vast deal of nature united with that astonishing splendour of colouring which so many have tried to emulate.

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