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Show CONNECTICUT FREAKS. October Strawberries, White P.Iackblrdi and Albinos In the Nutmeg State. This has been the latest, warmest, most blooming autumn for many years in this state. There had been no severe frosts until this week, and the orchards were fragrant with unseasonable blossoms on peach, pear, apple and plum trees, and the fields bright with dandelions, violets and other wild flowers. There were also strawberry and raspberry blossoms, and a farmer of a neighboring rural town picked luscious ripe strawberries and raspberries in his garden a day or two i ago. More wonderful stilL a Norwich I gardener, Charles H. Miner, got a mega of fine green corn in his garden on Oct. SI. It was the latest green corn probably proba-bly in the whole record of the Nutmeg State. On the same day Engineer Henry J. Adams or the Norwich and "Worcester railroad picked a bouquet of wild roses and buds by the roadside in Greeneville, in the outskirts of Norwich. A great number of albinos have been ehot by hunters in this county this fall. There were several pure white blackbirds black-birds and crows, a white robin and two albino red squirrels. A milk white robin, with pink toes, raised & family in a nest in a shade tree in front of the Congregational Congrega-tional church at the borough of Stoning-ton, Stoning-ton, on the seashore, and recently migrated mi-grated to the south. No one molested her or her nest. Her young were of the color of ordinary robins. The strangest albino freaks were killed recently by hunters in the forests among the wild hills about Middletown. They were perfectly per-fectly white gray squirrels, with beautiful beauti-ful pink eyes and claws and great flowing tails as beautiful as white plumes. Norwich Special. |