palm-house

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.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

The bananas and plantains in that same palm-house represent only the feeblest and poorest of their tribe.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

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.

The Hawaiian Archipelago 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.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

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.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

The large palm-house is one of the most successful in Ireland, and the Crawford Observatory will repay a visit.

The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway 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.

The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty 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.

Story of Chester Lawrence Nephi Anderson 1894

First they took a car to the Botanical Gardens, looked at the flower beds and inspected the palm-house.

Story of Chester Lawrence 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.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892