Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A glass house for the cultivation of fruits too delicate to be grown in the open air, or for bringing fruits to greater perfection than when grown outside, without the aid of artificial heat.
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Examples
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Plant a few on the border of an orchard-house, or in a ground vinery, or in old frames for which some lights, however crazy, can be found.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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"They are the first out of the new orchard-house," said the Rector's wife.
The Perpetual Curate 1862
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-- Galton, in his great work on hereditary genius, observes that "the time may hereafter arrive in far distant years, when the population of this earth shall be kept as strictly within bounds of number and suitability of race, as the sheep of a well-ordered moor, or the plants in an orchard-house; in the meantime let us do what we can to encourage the multiplication of the races best fitted to invent and conform to a high and generous civilization."
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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