Hothouse at Biltmore. Asheville, NC.
(video surveillance in effect!)
This was my favorite. . . . .
Another visit to the winter display in the Biltmore Conservatory.
See map (right of page--click on Asheville) for how to find it, if you are in the area. Choose 'hybrid' map to get the lay of the land. In the Vanderbilts' day, this was in the midst of 125,000 private wooded acres!
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The winter sun.
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This type designed in the period of Queen Victoria.
from Wikipedia (found under 'greenhouses'):
The golden era of the greenhouse was in England during the Victorian era, where the largest glasshouses yet conceived were constructed, as the wealthy upper class and aspiring botanists competed to build the most elaborate buildings. A good example of this trend is the pioneering Kew Gardens. Joseph Paxton, who had experimented with glass and iron in the creation of large greenhouses as the head gardener at Chatsworth, in Derbyshire, working for the Duke of Devonshire, designed and built The Crystal Palace in London, (although the latter was constructed for both horticultural and non-horticultural exhibition).
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I was glad to see they had them in the sophisticated slide show that first time visitors are directed to. Roughly 20 percent of all populations have some degree of hearing loss and often these instructional videos at museums and historic sites have poor quality soundtracks that are almost impossible to understand (for some of us--like me).
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