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vegetables, vines and in fact all tender vegetation. Cape Cod 

 appears to have escaped damage, and the damage was less 

 severe than elsewhere in Bristol and Plvmoutli connties. 

 Corn for the silo suifered especially. More or less tobacco 

 was caught unharvested, the wet weather having delayed 

 harvest, and that caught out was ruined for all practical pur- 

 poses. Considerable damage is also reported in the market 

 gardens of the eastern part of the State. Most crops were 

 backward, which accounts for the unusual damage suffered 

 from a frost that did not come at an unusually early date. 



