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Frosting

A row of whitened trees
(Photo: Some of the apple trees at Hutchins Farm earlier this week in Concord, Massachusetts.)

Neither blooms nor frost: these whitened trees are glazed with a spray of kaolin clay, an organic treatment that discourages pests from eating trees and crops.

These same trees were still blooming less than a week ago. They are in the fruit stage now.

Apple trees frosted with clay in an orchard.

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