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Mariott Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Gentlemen?

These trees can still be seen occasionally, incongruously dwarfing the "gentlemen's residences" of the time.

Here, I wonder what is "gentlemen's residences."
Probably they are hotels?

Thanks in advance!
  

Top answer

Not enough context. No reason to think they are hotels, however.

— Mister Micawber

  • Not enough context.
  • No reason to think they are hotels, however.
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Not enough context. No reason to think they are hotels, however.
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Thanks Mister Micawber! Let me add more context.

In 1844 William Lobb was sent to collect more seeds. It wasn't long before no fashionable Victorian garden was complete without a monkey-puzzle tree. Lobb's employer, the Veitch nursery, published a Manual of Coniferae and described "a magnificent vista of these strange wonderful trees with their dark plexus of branches and rigid bristly
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'Gentlemen's residences' means the houses and gardens of the richer folk.
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So many typos in my text.
Many thanks Mister Micawber!!!
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