lemon-trees

It stands on a height within the walls of Genoa, but aloof from the town: surrounded by beautiful gardens of its own, adorned with statues, vases, fountains, marble basins, terraces, walks of orange-trees and lemon-trees, groves of roses and camellias.

Pictures from Italy 2007

The lemon-trees are discarding the burden of superfluous fruit with almost immoderate haste, for the gentle flowers must have their day.

Tropic Days 2003

In the crumbling walls of the sunken garden lived dozens of little black scorpions, shining and polished as if they had been made out of bakelite; in the fig - and lemon-trees just below the garden were quantities of emerald-green tree-frogs, like delicious satiny sweets among the leaves; up on the hillside lived snakes of various sorts, brilliant lizards and tortoises.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

His job was to fill the water-tanks, pick the fruit, crush the olives, and get severely stung once a year extracting honey from the seventeen bee-hives that simmered beneath the lemon-trees.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

She lived in the Island of Cos, beside a dell which, covered with lemon-trees, descended to the blue sea.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Could she only lie away in the beautiful land where the mother slept, where the birds rested their wings upon the lemon-trees, and the blue sky smiled in quiet peacefulness!

The Angel Children or, Stories from Cloud-Land Charlotte M. Higgins

On a vivid morning of early summer, when the lemon-trees in the

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

Tivoli, under the shade of lemon-trees, with fragrant flowers and shrubs around us; and finally, have looked upon the ice-bound Elbe with its black vessels, slippery masts, and rigid cordage, and seen the Hanoverian milk lasses skimming its dun expanse laden with their precious burdens.

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

We find rows of lemon-trees on the Corso; and the cactus, or Indian fig, flourishes in the environs, — the bright oleander thriving in the open air.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

A few orange and lemon-trees, planted by the early

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various