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“We’ve had two nights of backto-back frost,” he said on Monday afternoon. “Saturday night it was 23 degrees and Sunday night it was 25,” he said. Temperatures that low don’t feel like spring to people or to budding fruit trees.

“It’s too soon to say if there is any damage” to peaches, plums, cherries, and nectarines, Mr. Williams said, adding that a few warm afternoons were needed before a definite prognosis could be made.

Apples are not in as much danger as the peaches, plums, nectarines and cherries, he explained, adding

See SPRING, p. A-8

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