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were in full bloom, about as those seen in Photo 91. That day 

 the weather changed. Six days after, the thermometer stood 

 eighteen degrees below zero. The result can be imagined! 



A neighbor of mine has been a successful peach-grower for 

 about forty years. His farm is situated on a high altitude. On 

 the night of the sixteenth and seventeenth of May, 1895, there 

 was a veritable freeze. Two inches of water standing in a 

 wash-tub froze solid and bulged up in the middle. My friend, 

 usually considered located "above late frosts," was caught this 



Photo 89, Elm Leaf. 



