From Pine View Farm

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Lilacs come earlier (emphasis added):

Every year has its own weather character, but the (Boston–ed.) arboretum’s celebrations marking the peak lilac bloom have migrated by three weeks over the last century. In 1920, Lilac Sunday was held on May 30; in 1983 it was May 22; in 2003 it was May 16; and this year it is May 8. Is it global warming? The arboretum is careful not to take a position.

To answer the question in bold, in the immortal words of a character (who can remind me who it was? I forget–a gremlin maybe?) from a Warner Brothers cartoon, “It ain’t Wendell Wilkie!”

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