Glass Houses: A History of Greenhouses, Orangeries and Conservatories

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Glass Houses: A History of Greenhouses, Orangeries and Conservatories - Rizzoli International 1988 - 216p.

1. The Innovators: before 1650 p.2, The Gardens of the Ancient World Italian Gardens in the Renaissance The Flowering of the Renaissance Elizabethan England Beddington Princes and Pomegranates, 2. The Fashion for Exoticks': 1650-17I5 p.22, The Sun King The England of John Evelyn London Gardens Royal Greenhouses Country Seats, 3. The Golden Age Of The Greenhouse: 1I7I5-1800 Whigs and Tories and Landscape Gardens The Practical Dr Bradley, FRS A Profusion of Pineapples The Gardener's Challenge Transatlantic Exchanges The Architect's Influence The Colonial Gentleman's Greenhouse. 4. Glass Roofs and Graceful Curves: 1780-1860 p.88, The First Glass Roofs The Classical Idiom Gothic Taste The Wyatts Cast Iron and Curves Heating and Glass Paxton and Burton Glass Houses in Society The Republican Greenhouse The Hudson River Style, 5. The Victorian Glass House: 1860-1920 p.142, Public Palaces, Royal Pavilions, Private Pleasure, Domes People in Glass Houses, President and People The Golden Age in America, 6. More Glass Than Wall: 1900 to the present day Great Gardens Under Glass, Into the Twentieth Century, New Botanical Conservatories, Private Decline and Fall 7. The Conservatory Today: Caring for Plants The Choice of Plants p.192

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