But the buildings, the plantations, all their arrangements at the mercy of the pirates!
For, although the rascals can do nothing to our house, they may plunder the plateau, our plantations, our poultry-yard!
Are we to leave them to overrun our forests, our fields, our plantations?
" "But our plantations, our poultry-yard, our corral, all, everything!
Plantations and domestic animals would then have been infallibly destroyed, without a constant watch, and it was often necessary to make use of the guns to keep those dangerous visitors at a respectful distance.
" "Doubtless," replied Gideon Spilett, "but to see the state in which we find these plantations, it is to be feared that the island has not been inhabited for some time.
The broad road was shaded by pepper-trees, and on each side were the plantations, cocoa-nut and vanilla.
Henry returned to what was now his only home, to watch over his young plantations, and extend his improvements for her sake, to whose share in them he looked anxiously forward; and Catherine remained at Fullerton to cry.
The remainder was shut off by knolls of old trees, or luxuriant plantations, and the steep woody hills rising behind, to give it shelter, were beautiful even in the leafless month of March.
Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years.
They established the first cocoa plantations and used the cocoa bean as the main ingredient in a dark, bitter drink that we would call "chocolate.
"Forests are being thinned out to make way for avocado plantations.
Coffee plantations in South America, Africa, Asia, and Hawaii are all being threatened by rising air temperatures and erratic rainfall patterns, which invite disease and invasive species to infest the coffee plant and ripening beans.
Coffee plantations in South America, Africa, Asia, and Hawaii are all being threatened by rising air temperatures and erratic rainfall patterns, which invite disease and invasive species to infest the coffee plant and ripening beans.
"); the restaurants serve tea grown on the company's own plantations.
Prior to the nationwide ban for business purposes, China had banned all commercial logging in natural forests in key forest zones, including those in Northeast China's Jilin Province and North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in 2015, followed by a further prohibition of commercial logging in State-owned plantations in 2016, the China News Service reported.
This new vegan leather is made from bonded fibers that are extracted from pineapple leaves on plantations by farmers before they are cut up and layered.
The project in Zalec, which is known for its hop plantations, is being described as the first beer fountain in Europe, and has made headlines in neighbouring Croatia and further afield in Serbia.
In Papua, I had hiked hours to villages without seeing a single sign, let alone one directing you to the local sweet potato plantations.
Rapid expansion of soybean plantations in South America could displace 22 million hectares (54 million acres) of tropical forest and savanna in the next 20 years.
