Down North and Up Along 
and, in spite of some wilful turnings of tough 
limbs, are on the whole rather conventional 
and strait-laced apple-trees. 
The orchards have something of the regu- 
larity which so displeases at one's first sight 
of an orange grove. But the orchards are 
more picturesque than the groves, because an 
apple-tree, no matter how well bred, never can 
escape a touch of wilfulness. 
Usually apple-trees growing near the sea 
depart very decidedly from the inland form. 
On the more exposed parts of Cape Cod, for 
instance, where they can be persuaded to grow 
at all, they act in a most grotesque manner. 
As if afraid to raise their heads for fear of 
having them blown off, they branch out close 
to the ground, and sometimes have a crown as 
broad as an ordinary full-grown tree and a 
trunk only a few inches in height. 
Others, as if trying to get above the winds, 
or as if their fibres had been drawn out by 
them, grow tall and narrow with a crown that 
often leans away from the prevailing winds. 
These are the sort that make certain parts of 
Rhode Island so picturesque. 
But the Nova Scotia apple-trees keep to 
