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a glass lung that breathes summer into January and lets gardeners cheat the seasons
means A building, usually of glass or transparent plastic, in which plants are grown under controlled, warmer conditions regardless of the weather outside.
from A plain compound of "green" and "house," dating to the 17th century, when the lush plants kept inside were literally the "greens." Earlier such structures had a different name: the "orangery," built by the wealthy to shelter citrus trees through northern winters. As glass grew cheaper and gardening more ambitious, "greenhouse" took root. The same logic later gave us "greenhouse effect" — the planet imagined as one vast pane of glass trapping the sun's warmth.
- trapped heat
- glass lets light in, blocks escaping infrared warmth
- roman roots
- emperor Tiberius grew cucumbers under mica sheets
- crystal palace
- 1851 London version held 990,000 square feet of glass
- venus warning
- runaway greenhouse effect bakes its surface to 465 Celsius
- dutch giants
- Netherlands greenhouses cover area larger than Manhattan
eden project — two massive geodesic domes in cornwall, uk containing rainforest and mediterranean biomes
kew gardens palm house — victorian glasshouse at royal botanic gardens, london, built 1844