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Index of Subjects I became interested in the plants which the Acadians brought with them, as they were being researched at the KC Irving Building for inclusion into to an Acadian garden at one point. I must ask Melanie, our head gardener, how the plans are coming for that project. There is a very large and old Daphne bush here in town which quite likely was planted by an Acadian person who might have been the apocothery for the inhabitants here. Being a laurel it does not put on much wood, but it has a lot of blossoms and the odour is delightful. I have Celandine or Swallow-wort here on my property, and there are other interesting plants near the Daphne. Try Valerian and Poisonous Hemlock and these other names on Google. Sometimes you can find a reference to some of the plants which came over with the Acadians. And it wasn't to make their gardens "pretty", either! They all had very specific uses. Jean
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