Agromatic Gardens

Archivist's Excerpt from: A Tale of Almost Two Cities: Orphan Heights & Related Histories, CVI 42:4

Under the constant and watchful care of the Corps. of Agromatics in Orphan Heights (subsidiary of the Orphan Heights Corps. of Engineers), and in particular the masterful handiwork of one Amandeline Fletcher, the Agromatic Gardens is regarded by the Orphan Heights Corps. of Engineers and the Grand Colonial Academy of Science as the least-valuable project on the part of the Agromatics Corps., and the most useful on the part of Orphan's general populous, right behind food production. In their defense, the reader has likely not tasted the produce coming out of the Agromatic yields.

One of Orphan's few "green" areas, it is a favourite location for evening strolls with one's sweetie or when someone wishes to smell something other than grease runoff or the smoke from the Corps. of Limeiron Forgers.

Situated in Orphan's northwest quarter of Rimsbury, which everybody agrees has the best view, the Gardens play host to many of Orphan's blue-bloods when they wish to get away from their manors and take a nice evening walk, though the Gardens are open to everyone at any time. Most of the labourers in Orphan don't bother to make their way there when there is, in their words, a "Perfectly good Lager than Life Pub" to frequent, instead.

The Gardens are also noteworthy for being the current project of the Corps. of Lectral Incandescent Transitioning under the Grand Colonial Academy of Science's own Hiram Lorecroft, and have become something of a matter of political hot-housing in regards to resources and allocation. Though arguments were made on many sides about wasted energy of lectral power and such, the Gardens as either a mark of civic pride or pointless indulgence, the decision was ultimately made when it was pointed out that lectral lighting would make a far less trip-hazardous environment for Amandeline Fletcher as she tended the azaleas, and nobody said further boo about it.