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une summer a strange blight hit the crop, and the flesh of many a tomato turned a pasty sickly white before the fruit ripened. Last summer was so dry for so long that some of the fruit never matured.
Early this summer the growing season began to develop as a repeat of a remembered summer of the 1940s when it rained so long without interruption and so hard that while vines proliferated and ran out of sight, the soil and air were so heavy with moisture that the fruit rotted on the vine.
Then, this summer, after the heavyrains of July and early August, as the plants thrived and spread every which
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