head-gardener

The plant-stands, taken care of by the head-gardener of Presles, rejoiced the eye with their pyramids of bloom.

A Start in Life 2007

The head-gardener was a Scotch Calvinist, after the strictest order, only occupying himself with the melons and pines provisionally, and until the end of the world, which event, he could prove by infallible calculations, was to come off in two or three years at farthest.

The Newcomes 2006

My neighbor would have urged some objection, but the head-gardener made a gesture that signified that he did not like objections; then he walked away to the carts, and, with an expression of dignity, went on looking after the packing.

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

The head-gardener, Mihail Karlovitch, a venerable old man with a full shaven face, wearing a fur waistcoat and no coat, superintended the packing of the plants himself, but at the same time he listened to our conversation in the hope of hearing something new.

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

He has perhaps crammed himself with the winds and tides, and there is no more reference to those stormy subjects than if Luna were extinct; but he has, unfortunately, been loose about his botany, and question after question would appear to him to have been dictated by Sir Joseph Paxton or the head-gardener at Kew.

The Three Clerks 2004

As soon as the head-gardener saw the Prince going towards the palace he ran to the trees, and when he saw them laden with ripe fruit he hastened to tell the King the joyful news.

The Yellow Fairy Book 2003

'The others are guarding t' house, master 'said the head-gardener.

Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin

No one will give evidence, not even the head-gardener; he says he didn't see how the fire began, and it might have been burning weeds that caused it, 'said George.

Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin

Sir Henry sent also with the seeds very particular directions for the culture of the plants, obtained probably from some head-gardener of a Priuli or a Morosini, whose melons had the full beat of Italian sunshine upon the south slopes of the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

Towards the end of December, his Highness's head-gardener, Rehde, a very important functionary at Muskau, arrived in London to be initiated into the mysteries of English landscape-gardening.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston