Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — Origin of Greenhouses. [ARTICLE]

Origin of Greenhouses.

William Watson, of Kew, says that the first greenhouse erected In England was in the Apothecaries’ Garden at Chelsea in 1684. ; It merely bad glass ■ides, and was heated by a kind of oven. In 1717 a glass-roofed bouse was built by the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle for foreign grapes, heated by furnaces placed under the floor of the house. Steam was first used In 1788, and hot water soon afterward was applied to a small house In the Jardin des Plantes at Paris.—Meehan’s Monthly.