Down North and Up Along 
the mud and their high sides uncovered to the 
gaze of the curious. 
There are httle groves of plum-trees all 
about Wolfville and the surrounding country. 
There are plums at Grand Pre and in the Gas- 
pereaux Valley, but not so many as at Wolf- 
ville. The orchards there were blue with 
ripening fruit. The trees were bending and 
almost breaking under the burden. Blue 
plums were dominant, but there were also red 
and white ones. 
The farmhouses looked neat, and were often 
picturesque or pretty, and everywhere were 
orchards of ripening apples and little groves 
of dark blue plums. 
We missed the flowers that made Digby so 
charming. Flowers were not abundant here, 
and where they did occur they were meagre 
and commonplace, and in no way characteristic 
of Acadia. 
To Digby belong her fish-flakes and her 
flowers ; Acadia has her dike-lands, her 
orchards, and her romance. 
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