forcing house
Britishnoun
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Rich men have had them for centuries; Tiberius Caesar raised cucumbers in a mica-covered "forcing house" when his doctor advised him to eat warm-weather vegetables the year round.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trees should be removed to the forcing house in the beginning of December, if fruit be required very early in the season.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
It can be grown in the soil of a forcing house under glass, and is extensively produced in this way by market gardeners.
From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous
They shipped him out to this tropic forcing house of ours—to let him keep on developing!...
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
The unrivaled French opera is in season, the forcing house of that bright garden of exotics.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various
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