"Greenhouse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ranks as high as some which are commended from pulpits and platforms. For your leader-writer is inexact, though complimentary, in assuming that any 'special genius' enables me to cultivate orchids without more expense than other greenhouse plants entail, or even without a gardener. I am happy to know that scores of worthy gentlemen—ladies too—not more gifted than their neighbours in any sense, find no greater difficulty. If the pleasure of one of these ...
— About Orchids - A Chat • Frederick Boyle
... tortured by the thought of how badly men governed the world; where he entertained all sorts and conditions of men—Quakers, Brahmins (for whose ancient rites he provided suitable accommodation in a greenhouse), nobles and abbes flying from revolutionary France, poets, painters, and peers; no one of whom ever long remained a stranger to his charm. Burke flung himself into farming with all the enthusiasm of his nature. His letters to Arthur Young on the subject of carrots still tremble ...
— Obiter Dicta - Second Series • Augustine Birrell
... an unusually careful morning toilet, that Miss Burgess, society reporter of the Endbury Chronicle, was below. Before the mistress of the house could finish adjusting her well-matched gray pompadour, a second arrival was heralded, "The gentleman from the greenhouse, to see about Miss Lydia's party decorations." And as the handsome matron came down the stairs a third comer was introduced into the hall—Mme. Boyle herself, the best dressmaker in town, who had come in person to see about the refitting of the debutante's Paris dresses, the debutante having ...
— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield
... Durrant," he said, taking the basket of grapes; but she walked past him towards the door of the greenhouse. ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
... in the greenhouse this morning, the last of them; I have had them all around me while there were any, because they remind me of you, dearest—and ...
— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn
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