In addition nearly all the medicinal plants of the pharmacopoeia are also found, and such exoticsas mistletoe and orchids as would delight the heart of a botanist jaded with the commonplaces of a northern forest.
They are not Italian and they are not Spanish, neither are they any distinct French type; hence they can only be classed as exotics which have taken root from some previous importation.
What is it that would inevitably ensue if these exotics were exposed to a cold winter?
Splendid flowers and rare exotics ornamented the courtyards and even the inner chambers.
I think you would like my library if you could see it,--it is one agglomeration of exotics and eccentricities.
In the basin of the great marble fountain white arum lilies were blooming, geraniums trailed from tall vases, and palms, bamboos, and other exotics backed the row of lemon trees at the end of the paved walk.
He was supposed to have a reputation for gardening, and rumors of his wonderful exotics had circulated round the school.
Such exotics do not transplant well, even for temporary potting, in this republican soil.
Large vases filled with vines andexotics were placed at intervals along the top of the parapet.
Among exotics the Australian saltbush spreads successfully over the worst alkali land.
The newspapers announce that the Exotics have challenged the Cupids, name the time and the place, and express an ardent hope that the weather will be propitious.
But some of the worst garden-weeds areexotics run wild.
The many fine exoticswhich are exhibited here must have been accumulated at a heavy expense.
I stood almost embowered in the foliage of exotics and native plants, which stood upon the gallery in handsome vases of marble and China-ware.
Pomegranate, fig, and lemon trees, shrubs, plants and exotics of every clime and variety, were dispersed in profusion over this charming parterre.
For some account of these, see my paper entitled, "The Literature of the Dead," in Exotics and Retrospectives.
See my paper entitled, "The Literature of the Dead" in Exoticsand Retrospectives.
Even the cluster of exotics on her shoulder were of the same pure tint, gardenias and lilies of the valley.
They went through the conservatory to the octagon dining-room, where the supper was ready, a special supper, on a table by a window, a table laden with exotics and brilliant with glass and silver.
No gardens in England exhibit such a wealth of exotics as those of Tresco, Carclew, Enys and Penjerrick, and some others in the district of the Fal estuary, which seems peculiarly favourable for the growth of sub-tropical species.
The myrtle, geranium, fuchsia, and hydrangea grow luxuriantly; the red geranium at Penzance will cover the front of a house, and palms and otherexotics thrive there and at Falmouth.
This market is abundantly supplied twice a week with exotics and flowers of all sorts, which are sold at a cheap rate.
The room was ornamented with many flowers, receiving from his hands the care and treatment they required; they were principally exotics from many distant and different climes.
It was the hunting-ground of all the cosmopolitan riff-raff, all the shifty hordes of exotics who had gradually foregathered and silently slipped into France after the war of 1870.
Well, I am glad to hear that you have read a book called "Exotics and Retrospectives.
She pointed to a door and they passed through into the great conservatory, softly lit up by tinted globes placed amidst the flowers and foliage of the rich exoticsthat filled the place.
Fee, that on his arrival he went first to the Garden of Plants, where Bernard de Jussieu was describing some exotics in Latin.
Among the rare exotics which he procured was the tea-plant, which his friend Ekeberg brought from China in 1763, and which had not been previously seen in Europe.
Idle perforce, the two exotics would stand for hours in the sunshine of their open doorway, shading their eyes from the glare and looking out, out into the distance that was as yet only a name--and that the borrowed name of an Indian tribe.
It seems as if the greatest talents, the most elaborate knowledge, only sprang from the weakest and worst-regulated mind, as exotics from dung.
Whereupon her nephew wheeled himself out of the room so swiftly that I could not detect what kind of exotics he was carrying in a little posy in his hand.
These exotics of either sex reminded me of petunias--the headachy kind, that are neither red nor blue, but a mixture.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exotics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
