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There are greenhouses to shelter the rarer and more sensitive plants to shelter them not, as in our hothouses, from the cold, but, on the contrary, from the heat and the withering rays of the sun.
She laughed. "The concentration of bloom in Northern hothouses deceives people. The semi-tropics and the tropics are almost monotonously green except where cultivated gardens exist. There are no masses of flowers anywhere; even the great brilliant blossoms make no show because they are widely scattered.
On the right of the entrance is a park containing all sorts of deer, and on the left are vast hothouses and greenhouses; in the centre, enclosed in iron lattice work, is a large pond for the reception of foreign aquatic animals, very near which is a large octagon experimental beehive, about ten feet high, and at the end, near the banks of the Seine, is a fine menagerie, in which, amongst other beasts, there are some noble lions.
What he did not sell of the farm he rented to another more energetic farmer, one Everitt Adams, the old market-gardener whom I remembered. Adams with more thrift and the great incentive of necessity built hothouses and went in for market-gardening to supply the wants of the neighboring city, which was already making itself felt upon the surrounding country.
"I want to quarrel with him about a label and you remember Dizzy's saying 'a head gardener is always opinionated'? Are you coming, Lady Maxwell?" Marcella shook her head, smiling. "I am afraid I hate hothouses," she said. "My dear lady, don't pine for the life according to nature at Castle Luton!" said Sir Philip, raising a finger.
By opening her window very wide, she was able to get a distant glimpse of the much-neglected Palace. She observed, with approval, the vast size of the house, the abundance of trees, the glass-houses, the hothouses, the remains of ancient splendour. Then she looked at the lake, which shone and gleamed in all its summer glory; but she turned her thoughts from the sad history of that lake.
Venning remembered the first days of her own widowhood, and life seemed to her a very short affair, after all. Honoria saw Taffy beside the grave. It was no season for out-of-door flowers, and she had rifled her hothouses for a wreath. The exotics shivered in the north-westerly wind; they looked meaningless, impertinent, in the gusty churchyard.
"I shall just go and give Mr Brownsmith a bit of my mind," she said. "I won't have you sent away like that, and all on account of that bye." "No, no," I said. "I'm going away with Mr Brownsmith's brother, to learn all about hothouses I suppose." "Oh, my dear bye!" she exclaimed. "You mustn't do that.
"Your mother said at lunch that perhaps you'd " "I didn't say 'perhaps, Arthur," Mrs. Palmer interrupted, to correct him. "I said she would. If you care to see and smell those lovely things out yonder, she'll show them to you. Run along, children!" Half an hour later, glancing from a window, she saw them come from the hothouses and slowly cross the lawn.
The green fruits are excellent for making pastry, if flavoured with a little lime-juice. The climate was too damp to grow onions; neither could I succeed with peas, potatoes, or turnips. An analogous case has been long known. It is the same in the hothouses of Europe. Dr.
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