Glasshouses |
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Author:
| Grant, Fiona |
Series title: | Shire Library |
ISBN: | 978-0-7478-1246-3 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Imprint: | Shire Publications |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $14.00 |
Book Description:
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Starting with Restoration fashion for cultivating pineapples, oranges and bananas within palatial orangeries, this title explains the development of glasshouses through eighteenth century into heyday of diversification and specialisation that charaterised the Victorian period, to the eventual decline of great glasshouses after the First World War.
Starting with Restoration fashion for cultivating pineapples, oranges and bananas within palatial orangeries, this title explains the development of glasshouses through eighteenth century into heyday of diversification and specialisation that charaterised the Victorian period, to the eventual decline of great glasshouses after the First World War.