![]() The first section of the book acquaints us with the story of Henry’s youth, how he made his fortune and how he came to marry a Dutch woman most definitely his equal. Outside it was snowing, a perfect Pennsylvania winter, but this man possessed several coal-fired greenhouses of his own design – structures that made him not only the envy of every plantsman and botanist in the Americas, but also blisteringly rich – and if he wanted a pineapple in January, by God he could have a pineapple in January. To mark the occasion, Henry harvested a pineapple from his largest greenhouse and divided it in equal shares with everyone in the household. ![]() Being a woman, however, Beatrix uses her talents to run the household while Henry is the ‘public face’ of his business. ![]() ![]() Alma Whittaker, is born on the 5 th of January 1800 to Henry, a botanist and Beatrix, conversant in seven languages and an expert in botany too. ![]()
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