“Amongst the gelatine cultivations”

Abstract

“I am sorry to hear this” said he. “I only know Mr Holmes through some business dealings which we have had, but I have every respect for his talents and his character. He is an amateur of crime, as I am of disease. For him the villain, for me the microbe. There are my prisons,” he continued, pointing to a row of bottles and jars which stood upon his side table. “Amongst those gelatine cultivations some of the very worst offenders in the world are now doing time.”
Mr Culverton Smith to Dr Watson in The Adventure of the Dying Detective by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle