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Quote #10
To the side of the house sat a beautiful orchard of apple trees and some pear trees. The grass of the orchard was overgrown, almost touching the boughs in places. Here and there enormous weighty clusters of mistletoe, Baldur's bane, clung to the treetops.
The orchard was heavy, ripe and bursting to deliver. Merle's mouth hung open—she had never seen trees with so much fruit on them before. They hung with clusters of apples, their branches pulled low by the weight. (4.4.15-16)
Eric Carlsson's apple orchard on the western half of Blessed Island really is a sight to behold. Forgive us if we remember another famous fruit tree that held equal temptation: the one in the Garden of Eden. Of course, here we don't have just one tree; there's a whole orchard. And little Merle just can't resist going in to explore.