garden-plots

The battle between frost and thaw was continuing in mid-air: the trees dripped on the garden-plots, where no vegetables would grow for the dripping, though they were planted year after year with that curious mechanical regularity of country people in the face of hopelessness; the moss which covered the once broad gravel terrace was swamped; and Grace stood irresolute.

The Woodlanders 2006

The road winds round the walls; and the outer park, which is likewise planted with trees, and diversified by garden-plots and cottages, had more the air of the outbuildings of a homely English park, than of a palace which we must all have imagined to be the most stately in the world.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

Some of the boys did this from choice, and because they loved to watch things grow; but many of them were careless, and had no love for fruit or flowers; so while some of the garden-plots were well kept, others were neglected.

The Boy Life of Napoleon Afterwards Emperor of the French Eugenie Foa

The boys to whom belonged the garden-plots on either side of him were careless and neglectful.

The Boy Life of Napoleon Afterwards Emperor of the French Eugenie Foa

Mr. Bandelier could only surmise that these were garden-plots, something like the ancient terrace garden-plots in Peru.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

The interspaces between the buildings were choked with forest-growth, broken by a few small fields and garden-plots.

Space Viking H. Beam Piper 1934

And one who sees it in winter, when it is covered with snow, cannot imagine that there is anything under the snow but garden-plots, rye-fields and clover-meadows, as is generally the case in flat countries.

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

The approach to an ordinary city of the time lay through suburbs, farms, and garden-plots, for the townsman still supplemented industry with small-scale agriculture.

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

Thus a body of hired laborers grew up claiming no land beyond that on which their miserable huts stood and possibly their small garden-plots.

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

They did not have the cheery, buoyant ugliness of pioneer homes in an unsettled country, for behind them were the ruins of the old village, fragments of blackened wall, stone chimneys filled with accumulations of rubbish, garden-plots choked with weeds, reminding us that here was no outpost of a new civilization, but the desolation of an old one, fallen upon evil days.

High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France James Norman Hall 1919