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Gentlemen kept horses, a groom and a coachman; Mr. Belcher did the same. Gentlemen of wealth built green-houses for themselves and kept a gardener; Mr. Belcher could do no less.
The green-houses of the State capital and of three neighboring cities had been laid under contribution by Mr. Fabian, and had yielded up their sweetest treasures for this occasion.
He had miles of it at Wrenfield his big kitchen-garden was surrounded by blinking battalions of green-houses. And in nearly all of them melons were grown early melons and late, French, English, domestic dwarf melons and monsters: every shape, colour and variety. They were petted and nursed like children a staff of trained attendants waited on them.
The children went into the house to get their luncheon of bread and jam, and after the girls had rested themselves, their mother promised to take a stroll with them and their brothers round the garden and through the green-houses. At this time of year there was little to see; but still what little there was, was worth seeing, and a stroll with mamma was always a treat.
Instead were grown lobelias, geraniums, and calceolarias, combined in a hideous mixture, not because any one thought them more beautiful, but because, since they were grown in green-houses, they implied the possession of green-houses and so of wealth. They did not, of course, even do that, since they could be bought very cheaply from nurserymen.
He resisted the temptation to add, "Look at me!" Did not Fairholme, its lawns and green-houses, say as much for him? "But I don't know that I want anything," smiled Bob. "Of course I'll have a shot if it'll oblige you," he added. "But Well, I'd rather not risk it, you know." Janie was there. Iver turned to her in despair. She was smiling at Bob in an approving understanding way.
After a short silence, during which they were all occupied with their correspondence, Mr Campbell said, "I also have good news to communicate to you; Mr H. writes to me to say, that Mr Douglas Campbell, on finding the green-houses and hot-houses so well stocked, considers that he was bound to pay for the plants; that they have been valued at seven hundred pounds, and that he has paid that money into my agent's hands.
We read of the management of hot-houses, green-houses, forcing-houses; of nursery-grounds, shrubberies, and other concomitants of ornamental gardening.
The French music too, such as attends on their parties, exceeds that of England; in a few words, a party in France is a spectacle; it is arranged with art; and where there is much art, there will always be some taste. In the neighbourhood of Lyons are numerous chateaus, most delightfully situated, with lawns, pleasure-grounds, gardens, and green-houses, in the English taste.
A numerous variety of heaths are brought from the Cape of Good Hope, and afford great pleasure to the amateur of exotic plants, being the greatest ornaments to our green-houses. EUONYMUS europaeus. SPINDLE-TREE. An ornamental shrub. The wood is in great request for making skewers for butchers, as it does not impart any unpleasant taste to the meat. FAGUS Castanea.
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