half-breadthways

Updated: June 1, 2025

Mijnheer took up a root here and there, telling her something of the history of each; explaining how the narcissus increased and the tulips grew; showing her hyacinth bulbs cut in half-breadthways with all the separate severed layers distended by reason of the growing and swelling of the seeds between. "Each little seed will be a bulb by and by," he said, "but not yet.

Una Lucy Silberrad - The Good Comrade