You see, his experiments had led him to believe that it was possible to induce here the successful growth of certain new strains of fruit that he had developed.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Wicker Man (1973) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:44:16 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Then in 1868, my grandfather bought this barren island and began to change things.
- A distinguished Victorian scientist, agronomist, free thinker.
- How formidably benevolent he seems. Essentially the face of a man incredulous of all human good.
- You're very cynical, my lord.
- So, with typical mid-Victorian zeal, he set to work.
- What he did, of course, was to develop new cultivars of hardy fruits suited to local conditions.
- But, of course, to begin with, they worked for him because he fed them and clothed them...
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