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El geranio rosado, el Pelargonio parecía absolutamente azul luego de recolectarlo en el exterior.
The pink geranium, the pelargonium seemed absolutely blue when he collected it outside.
Los curas eran expertos taxidermistas y especialistas en pelargonios escarolados.
The Fathers were expert taxidermists and connoisseurs of frilly pelargoniums.
Los pelargonios plantados en tiestos perdían sus hojas amarillentas sobre pilas de panfletos y de ejemplares de Country Life.
Potted pelargoniums shed their yellowing leaves over the piles of pamphlets and Country Lifes.
Se pasaron la tarde sentados en el extremo del morro, en la parte por donde descendía suavemente hacia la playa, cubriendo el suelo, un ostentoso despliegue de pelargonios multicolores.
They sat the afternoon out on a patio which stood at the far edge of the bluff where it sloped gently to the shore and was covered with a wild array of multicolored pelargoniums.
Se debía dominar la lengua latina y saber cuándo se cosecha el heliotropo y cuándo florece el pelargonio y que la flor del jazmín pierde su aroma a la salida del sol.
You had to be fluent in Latin. You had to know when heliotrope is harvested and when pelargonium blooms, and that the jasmine blossom loses its scent at sunrise.
Sus siguientes palabras fueron "pelargonio", "establo de cabras", "berza" y "Jacques L’orreur", nombre este último de un ayudante de jardinero del contiguo convento de las Filles de la Croix, que de vez en cuando realizaba trabajos pesados para madame Gaillard y se distinguía por no haberse lavado ni una sola vez en su vida.
The next words he parted with were ’Pelargonium‘, ’goat stall‘, ’savoy cabbage‘ and ’Jacqueslorreur‘, this last being the name of a gardener’s helper from the neighbouring convent of the Filles de la Croix, who occasionally did rough, indeed very rough work for Madame Gaillard and was most conspicuous for never once having washed in all his life.
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