Potted History by Catherine Horwood

Author:Catherine Horwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910258705
Publisher: Pimpernel Press

That had been thought of as well: ‘The demand for care-takers would bring forward a host of candidates for this new branch of industry, and it might furnish an excellent and remunerative vocation for women.’17

In 1874 an article appeared in The Garden magazine describing the ‘House-top Garden in the City’ belonging to Mr Lascelles, the ‘horticultural builder’, of Bunhill Row, Finsbury. The rooftop conservatory was on top of Mr Lascelles’s offices and The Garden found it so inspiring that they thought

such a pleasant innovation in the city naturally suggests many ways in which a like kind of glasshouse might be made to add to the comfort and elegance of private houses of every class, from those who could afford a well-furnished winter-garden to those who could only use the upper storey as a playground for children.18

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