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Updated: June 2, 2025
But orchid culture is not to be dealt with at the end of an article. In the days of my apprenticeship I put up a big greenhouse: unable to manage plants in the open-air, I expected to succeed with them under unnatural conditions! These memories are strung together with the hope of encouraging a forlorn and desperate amateur here or there; and surely that confession will cheer him.
He fairly tore at the various levers and controls, and even increased the speed of the motor, but this last only had the effect of sending the machine at a faster rate toward the big expanse of glass, which was the greenhouse roof. "Shut it off!
The Heir complimented these magnificences by a greenhouse which he built along a wall with a southern exposure, not that he loved flowers, but he meant to attack through horticulture the public notice he wanted to excite. At the present moment he had all but attained his end.
After a few bad nights with little sleep and some close shells, Headquarters moved from their shed, hard by a mound, to a dismantled greenhouse further back. It was a nasty time. The German aeroplanes were very active.... That faint patter of machine-gun fire which comes from aeroplanes circling overhead ends in the descent of one of them.
Archways and pillars were covered with climbers and ramblers, a little untrained, but hanging down in such glorious profusion that one almost approved of the neglect. Round this garden was a high hedge of clipped holly, so that it was sheltered from every wind, and the roses bloomed as if in a greenhouse.
They are 2½ in. long and wide; the tube short and woolly; the petals spreading, beautifully fringed, and rose-coloured. Native of North-east Mexico, where it grows on stony hillsides in full exposure to sunshine, and where, during winter, it has to endure weather verging on to frost. It thrives in a greenhouse under cultivation.
All other types of houses are modifications from the simplest form, and are designed in some way or other to fit some special requirements. "It is plain common sense that the ideal greenhouse is one in which the light is most nearly that which exists outside, and in which the heat is as evenly distributed.
As his hand closed over hers in good-by I saw, what he could not, that she had half a notion to kiss it. I told her so when he was gone, and kissed hers for him. "I don't care," she said, dreamily, as it lingered in mine, "I'm glad I mended his coat for him that time." The Taxidermist One day a hummingbird got caught in a cobweb in our greenhouse.
The air of that little room was too hot: it had the close, heavy warmth of a greenhouse. The roses were withering, and intoxicating odors floated up from the patchouli in the cup. "One would like to be very rich on occasions like this," added Nana. "Well, well, we each do what we can. Believe me, gentlemen, if I had known "
There was nobody at the red-roofed house so early, and he set down in the front porch what he took carefully, one at a time, from the vehicle, some two dozen lovely greenhouse plants, newly potted from the choicest and most flourishing growth of the season. When Sylvie and Sabina came round from the ten o'clock street car, they stumbled suddenly upon this beauty that incumbered the entrance.
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