waxed-mustache

Updated: May 22, 2025

Very many of these fine lindens are being planted now in America by landscape architects, and there are some lindens on Long Island just as prim and trim as any in Berlin. Indeed, there is a sort of German "offiziere" waxed-mustache air of superiority about them, anyway!

J. Horace (John Horace) McFarland - Getting Acquainted with the Trees