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of paint ; consequently the town has a very new 
look, and presents a thrifty and well-to-do ap- 
pearance as exasperating to the artist as it is 
doubtless gratifying to the inhabitant. But 
these objectionable dwellings are in part re- 
deemed by their flower-gardens. 
Fish-flakes and flowers can do much for a 
place, be it never so ugly, and in Digby there 
are flowers everyv/here. The people have a 
pretty way of putting them wherever there is 
a place to hold them. One sees pots of 
blooming plants in the cellar windows on the 
main street, where the houses add to their 
other crimes .against good taste that of open- 
ing directly upon the sidewalk. Flower-pots 
stand on brackets on the side of the house and 
often bank up two sides of the little extended 
entry-way. 
It is pleasant to enter a house between walls 
of flowers, and it is pleasant to stop before the 
yards and interview the tangles of poppies and 
pinks and all sorts of bright and spicy flower- 
folk that do congregate in those places. 
Digby flowers appear to grow for the mere 
joy of it, they are so bright and spicy, and 
crowd out the weeds with such vigour, some- 
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