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Having eaten well and drunk still better, he lit a cigar and sauntered forth to find a place for dreaming. Chance led him to the patch of public garden, with its shrubs and young palm-trees, which looks over the little port.
Few soils come amiss to this neglected shrub, it growing and flowering freely even on poor gravelly clay, and where only a limited number of shrubs could succeed. OLEARIA HAASTII. New Zealand, 1872. This Composite shrub is only hardy in the milder parts of England and Ireland. It is of stiff, dwarf growth, rarely growing more than 4 feet high, but of neat and compact habit.
He had turned so suddenly, he strode so fast, he looked so strange; the coward within me grew pale, shrank and not waiting to listen to reason, and hearing the shrubs crush and the gravel crunch to his advance she was gone on the wings of panic. Nor did I pause till I had taken sanctuary in the oratory, now empty.
"I shouldn't wonder if the guard is a very small one," whispered Sam to Robin, as they crept to the edge of the shrubs which lined the harbour, and surveyed their intended prize. "No doubt they expected to meet only with friends here or with nobody at all, as it has turned out, and have left just enough to guard their poor slaves." "We shall soon find out," returned Sam.
She wandered in an out among the groups of wild growing shrubs, rising one above another to the height of forest trees, and then she went out by the old five-barred gate which Titmouse used to jump so merrily, and rambled in the plantation till the sun was high, and the pines began to breathe forth their incense as the day-god warmed them into life. It was half-past eight.
Besides all this, his inside is so made that he can live without water for three days. A dromedary is a swifter kind of camel, and is just as superior to a camel as a riding-horse is to a cart-horse. These are coffee, dates, and gums. For these Arabia is famous. The coffee plants are shrubs.
It was not on the route of any of our pleasure expeditions, and, as I have said, there were points of interest in every other direction. But just above the cove was a high knob-shaped piece of grass and shrubs, dotted with many slabs of sharp stones that stood up like tombstones, and made the knoll look so much like a grave yard that we used to call it "our cemetery."
I wonder that they do not plant rose-trees and all kinds of fragrant and flowering shrubs under the shrines, and twine and wreathe them all around, so that the Virgin may dwell within a bower of perpetual freshness; at least put flower-pots, with living plants, into the niche.
The little shrubs which they were planting would gradually become tall trees. Perhaps big houses and great splendid ships would be built from them! If the children had not come here and planted while there was still a little soil in the clefts, all the earth would have been carried away by wind and water, and the mountain could never more have been clothed in green.
It was not the time to ask the question. First of all, it was necessary for the young man to go in search of Madame Steno on the terrace, which terminated in a paradise of Italian voluptuousness, the salon furnished in imitation of Paris. Shrubs blossomed in large terra-cotta vases.
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