palmiers

Updated: June 9, 2025

A very expensive item was the carriage by road from Tsarskoe Selo of one hundred specially grown large palm trees in specially constructed frost-proof vans; there was also the heavy cost of the supper and wine, which for the "Bals des Palmiers" was provided on a far more sumptuous scale than at the ordinary Court entertainments and balls. Ichabod! Ichabod!

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton - Here, There and Everywhere