hothouse plant

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He need not be a diseased oyster or a frail hothouse plant or an emotional prairie fire that scorches the earth searching for truth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Second, she was a hothouse plant, and would have been out of place in a garrison settlement.

From In the Van; or, The Builders by Price-Brown, John

And here is a foreign hothouse plant, too delicate for the gardens of the North; the leaves almost seem to keep their fragrance still.

From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)

He only knew them as “pawn-leaves,” but the botanist at once recognised a rare hothouse plant, belonging to the pepper tribe, Piperacea.

From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Reid, Mayne

I'm quite as eager as you to discover how the transplanting of the hothouse plant into the hardy outdoor soil of the country has worked out.

From Under the Country Sky by Rogers, Frances