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Definition of Glasshouses
1. glasshouse [n] - See also: glasshouse
Literary usage of Glasshouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"glasshouses FOR VEGETABLE CROPS By LR Tafl For many years gardeners made use of
cold- frames and hotbeds for the starting of vegetable plants in the spring, ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Ventilation by Morrill Wyman (1846)
"Steam-planing Mills, glasshouses, &c. — Dr. Reid's Definition of Smoke. — Enumeration
of its Constituents. IN the chapter on respiration, we have pointed ..."
3. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1813)
"The glasshouses, however, •which formerly existed are now laid aside ; and the
pottery is also very trifling. The TRADE AND MANUFACTURES of Nottingham have ..."
4. The Scientific Works of C. William Siemens ...: A Collection of Papers and by Sir Charles William Siemens (1889)
"ON A REGENERATIVE GAS FURNACE, AS APPLIED TO glasshouses, PUDDLING, HEATING, ETC.
BY MR. C. WILLIAM SIEMENS.* THE arrangement of furnaces about to be ..."
5. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Edward William Cox, Great BRitain Magistrates' cases (1899)
"glasshouses in or on a market garden are " buildings " in the ordinary legal
meaning of the word and must be rated as such, and are not to be treated as ..."
6. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain. Privy Council, Great Britain. Supreme Court of Judicature (1900)
"The Court of Appeal held that land covered with glasshouses for the purpose of
its cultivation was, though used solely as a market garden, " a building or ..."
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