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Hothouse Cooler   9.0



          Rose Lemonade Tea Infused Hendricks

          Watermelon & Cucumber Nectar
          White Port

          Lanique
          Citron

          Luscombe Damascene Rose


                               Sweet/Floral/Tropical/Zesty


          I have been instructed by my Mother’s Chancellor that I am to be given a ship for my
          voyage on the sole condition that I fill my holds with seeds and fauna from her botanical
          gardens at Kew to distribute across the empire.
          I arrived amid much drama and the garden was teeming with police.  It would appear
          that the Gardens seed archive has been plundered.  I am left to wait for what seemed
          an aeon and pass the time admiring the stunning architecture of the palm house designed
          by Decimus Burton.
          In the stifling air from the heat of the palms, I am soon parched by thirst and take it
          upon myself to concoct a draft to quench it.  Grabbing some roses and what I believe
          are small cucumbers, I decide to make my Queen Victoria Punch.
          It was at this point the curator, my old friend Donald Smythe, came in with a look of
          thunder on his face!  To add insult to injury, I have apparently just butchered his
          latest experiment; the attempt to cross pollinate cucumbers with melons and create the
          first Cucamelon.  Calming Smythe with a drink he proceeds to tell me of the previous
          evening’s events, that a man had broken into the gardens and stolen most of the cache of
          seeds I was to take on my voyage.
          I leave with what is left of the seeds for Mother’s colonies - my first port of call is
          the Ascension Islands to meet up with the curator of the Gardens, Joseph Dalton Hooker.


            Inspiration. - The Flowing Bowl What & When To Drink - William Schmidt (1892)
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