Go to the palm-house, find the Musa sapientum, magnify it ten times, glorify it immeasurably, and you will have a laggard idea of the banana groves of Hilo. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
The bananas and plantains in that same palm-house represent only the feeblest and poorest of their tribe. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
For example, there is a specimen of the Pandanus odoratissimus in the palm-house in the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, which is certainly a malignant caricature, with its long straggling branches, and widely scattered tufts of poverty stricken foliage. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
Imagine living for six continuous months in the hottest palm-house in Kew Gardens; yet the planter is out and about all day long; nearly always on pony back, however, an enormously thick solah toppee hat or a heavy white umbrella protecting his head. ❋ Thomas Carson (N/A)
When Joseph Paxton raised the palm-house at Chatsworth he little suspected that he was building for the world -- that, to borrow a simile from his own vocation, he was setting a bulb which would expand into a shape of as wide note as the domes of Florence and St. Sophia. ❋ Various (N/A)
The large palm-house is one of the most successful in Ireland, and the Crawford Observatory will repay a visit. ❋ Robert Lloyd Praeger (1909)
From the ferns we look to the rest of the forest, and after the first bewilderment at the profusion and variety of vegetation we try to fasten on to a few individuals or types which we can identify as having seen elsewhere in some other part of India or in some palm-house in England. ❋ Francis Edward Younghusband (1902)
The palm-house took a good part of their time, for the beautiful statue of Burn's Highland Mary, gleaming white from a bed of green, took Chester's attention, as also the historical figures surrounding the house. ❋ Nephi Anderson (1894)
First they took a car to the Botanical Gardens, looked at the flower beds and inspected the palm-house. ❋ Nephi Anderson (1894)
Since then the heat has grown worse, about the temperature of a freely watered palm-house, and my lack of summer materials is making itself decidedly felt. ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)
In the old-fashioned way, we left the men to their smoke, and wandered through the drawing-room into a big domed palm-house, which in its fragrant dimness, with the giant palms reaching to the very roof, looked much more inviting than the drawing-room with its glaring incandescent lights. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)
The different groups broke up and drifted here and there; into the palm-house to look at the flowers, back into the drawing-room to talk, drink coffee, and glance surreptitiously at the clock. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)
I thought of Charmion, sitting calm and quiet in the palm-house; I thought of that first horrible interview in the inn parlour; I thought of my heroic ancestors. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)
Inside the palm-house I could see Charmion's grey figure reclining in a wicker chair, her face ivory-white against the cushions. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)
He turned away, and beheld a man, in an old cap and apron, at the further end of the palm-house he was in, doing something to a plant. ❋ Harold Frederic (1877)
He had to take the roof off his palm-house last year, you know. ❋ Unknown (1875)
The bamboo palm-house was now quite finished, and several articles of furniture too -- for during the nights both Don Pablo and his trusty man ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
