Most of the greenhouses are fixtures, but in some parts of the kingdom structures that move on rails and wheels are used, to enable the ground to be prepared in the open for one crop while another is maturing under glass.
Some greenhouses are warmed by stoves, and serve a good purpose; others have a stove set in a flue which is built in the wall, gradually rising until it has passed around two or three sides of the building.
Greenhouses vary as much in style and cost as dwellings.
It is equally important to have the right kind of light, as disastrous experiences with greenhouses glazed with glass which cut off certain rays of light have taught.
Unsuitable constitution of the atmosphere is also a fruitful source of disease, though its effects are commoner in closed stoves and greenhouses than in the open.
The greenhouses were spacious and the display of rare plants and flowers more varied and beautiful than any I had ever seen.
I'm her sole interest in life, the greenhouses excepted, of course.
In England they are less troublesome in the open air, though in greenhouses and hothouses they abound; but, in places under glass, every gardener ought to be able to get rid of them without difficulty.
In hothouses and greenhouses all sorts of plants are liable to attack.
They are aware that in greenhouses and hothouses these insects are a trouble to gardeners, and that they probably injure flowering or fruit-bearing plants in such situations.
Do, mother," said I, "and take a walk in the greenhouses yourself.
The greenhouses were in their perfection now: there were many of them of various temperatures, but all opening from one into the other.
It faced southward, and looked out over the greenhouses and the gardens, that stretched behind the house to the bulk of woods, shutting out the stage-picturesqueness of the summer settlement of South Hatboro'.
He was a great lover of living plants; his garden and greenhouses at Fallowfield, his Manchester home, were of remarkable interest, and he was a keen gardener.
This idea of ventilating greenhouses he carried out in a plant house designed by him for the Dowager Princess of Wales, in which warm fresh air was admitted.
Grevilleas are really trees, and are valuable in greenhouses and rooms only in their young state.
It is not in our greenhouses alone that these plants sometimes show likes and dislikes beyond explanation.
The prospect is still more dark for those who believe--as many do--that no epiphytal orchid under any circumstances can be induced to establish itself permanently in our greenhouses as it does at home.
Damage to living plants occurs principally in the Tropics or under subtropical conditions in greenhouses in temperate regions.
Periplaneta fuliginosa is also troublesome in greenhouses because of its tendency to feed on seedlings and succulent plants (Dodge and Rickett, 1943).
In their natural homes they are invariably found either on trees or rocks, seldom or never on the ground; but in greenhouses they may be grown in pots, a few being happiest when suspended near the glass.
For windows or small greenhouses this is a most suitable plant, as it flowers freely and keeps in good health in an ordinary greenhouse temperature, always, however, requiring plenty of sunlight and rest during winter.
Many of our readers will be acquainted with the neat little glass cases, like greenhouses in shape, and fitted up in much the same way, which are sometimes to be seen in our markets, filled with a collection of miniature Cactuses.
For windows and greenhouses it is a very desirable plant.
Beany reached the greenhouses and amused himself by talking with Mr. O'Neill, the head gardener.
His one concern was for his brother, who had been watching over the greenhouses on the other side of the race-track.
Of the former the majority are tropical, but are common in greenhouses where they are prized for their delicate moss-like foliage (Fig.
Walls and fences and greenhouses and outbuildings must not be allowed to crumble away.
There was much to occupy her--all her pensioners in the village to visit, hours to be spent with the head gardener in the greenhouses and conservatories, walks to be taken with the dogs, and the horses to be visited and petted.
You will find me in one of the greenhouses if you want me.
Pipes should also be laid having a connexion with all the various greenhouses and forcing-houses, each of which should be provided with a cistern for aerating the daily supplies.
In some places movable greenhouses have been erected for market purposes, so that the soil may be exposed to the sweetening effect of the weather, when the glass roof is moved to an adjoining patch.
In these circumstances "syringing" and "damping down" are of value in cooling the temperature of the air in hothouses and greenhouses and increasing its humidity, thereby checking excessive transpiration.
A thing everyone must have is =a thermometer=, in greenhouses they are indispensable; the minimum kind are the most useful, telling one as they do exactly the degree of frost experienced during the preceding night.
Raise temperature of greenhouses as the days become lighter.
As a dust it is used extensively in greenhouses for plant-lice, and in nurseries and about apple trees for the woolly aphis.
The subject of forcing-houses and greenhouses is not discussed in this book.
Such lean-to frames are sometimes made against greenhouses or warm cellars, and heat is supplied to them by the opening of a door in the wall, as at B.
The use of hydrocyanic acid gas in greenhouses is now coming to be common, for plant-lice, white-fly, and other insects.
Minute reddish mites on the under sides of leaves in greenhouses and sometimes out of doors in dry weather.
Used in greenhouses North, but is hardy far South.
These places, with their stately trees and greenhouses and careful lawns, have also been merged into the domain of brick and mortar and concrete.
Now, Miss Merivale, will you come to the greenhouses and show me how to get some butterfly chrysalides?
With colder winter weather they should be covered or grown in greenhouses or conservatories.
The plants grow indoors or out and tolerate a temperature of twenty-five degrees below freezing; in zero weather they should be grown in dry sunny greenhouses or conservatories.
The great house is full of every thing, and coal eno' burning in the greenhouses to ripen a few bunches of grapes out of God's own season, as would keep many of us warm.
Amaryllidaceae, some of them cultivated in European greenhousesand gardens.
Gesneraceae, now cultivated in European greenhouses on account of their white, blue, and red flowers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greenhouses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
