This section is from the book "The Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia", by Luke Hebert. Also available from Amazon: Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia.
A garden erection, similar to a green-house, employed either for forcing plants, or for the training of exotics, provided with a stove or flue for the diffusion of artificial heat, and the means of duly regulating it.
 
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