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1844 - Oct. 2 and 21.
1845 - Oct. 16.
1846 - Oct. 26.
1847 - Oct. 12 and 16.
1848 - Sept. 30. Snow Sept. 22 and 23.
1849 - Nov. 1.
1850 - Oct. 14.
1851 - Sept. 25. Oct 16, white frost.
1852 - Oct. 16 and 17.
1853 - [blank]
1854 - Oct. 21.

From p. 131, Transactions of the Connecticut State Agricultural
Society, 1854, Hartford, 1855.

Middletown is in North Latitude <s>40°</s> 41° 33' 8"..

March 12, 1855, Gurdon W. Russell, of Hartford, Ct.,
writes:-

"Peaches generally succeed with us, especially in the
city, but sometimes even here, the severe cold of winter
prooves [proves] too severe for the fruit buds.  An almost endless
variety is raised, both of named and unnamed kinds. x x x

        