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Concord, Mass
1916.
Aug. 30
to
Nov. 4

temperatures fell, overnight, to 27 [degrees] Fahr. [Fahrenheit] and most cultivated
flowers perished. Before that there had been only some frost,
attractively whitening the landscape at sunrise every now and
then and killing more or less foliage in lowland places.
The thermometer mercury did not again fall below the 32 [degree]
mark until the middle of November.

Autumn coloring.

  Autumnal coloring developed later and lasted longer
than usual but otherwise was not exceptional.
  Some swamp maples and most sumacs of
every kind were ablaze by October 5 [October 5, 1916] but many of the maples
did not change thus before the 12th [October 12, 1916] and a few
remained almost as uniformly green as in
midsummer until after the 15th [October 15, 1916], while not all their 
leafage had fallen by the 20th [October 20, 1916] - something that 
very seldom happens in our neighborhood. The 
splendid pageant was renewed and in some respects