Horticulture seemed, however, to have been abandoned in the deserted kitchen-garden; and where cabbages, carrots, radishes, pease, and melons had once flourished, a scanty crop of lucerne alone bore evidence of its being deemed worthy of cultivation.

• 在这个果园里，以前曾一度种植过最精美的水果和蔬菜，现在却只疏疏松松地种植着一些苜蓿花，由于无人照料，将来，恐怕免不了要成一块贫瘠的空地的。