Palm house
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Palm house is a term sometimes used for large and high heated display greenhouses that specialise in growing palms and other tropical and subtropical plants. In Victorian Britain, several ornate glass
The Palmenhaus Schönbrunn in Vienna, 1882, 111 metres long, 28 metres wide and 25 metres high
The Palm House, Kew Gardens, 1848, 62 feet high and 362 long
The Palm House at the Belfast Botanic Gardens, 1840
Helsinki Botanic Garden, 1889
Conservatory (greenhouse)
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A conservatory is a building or room having glass or other transparent roofing and walls, used as a greenhouse or a sunroom. Usually it refers to a space attached to a conventional building such as a
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…botanical gardens and parks, using cast iron architecture. Especially in English-speaking countries outside the British Isles, these are often called conservatories, in the UK mainly a term for small glass structures attached to houses. The large example, completed in 1848, in Kew Gardens, London was arguably the…
A traditional conservatory at the Horniman Museum in London, now used as a café.
A modern implementation, Adelaide Botanic Garden's Bicentennial Conservatory
Conservatory interior in the Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape, Czechia
An English conservatory, Dawley Court, near Hillingdon, Middlesex, photographed circa 1870