Monsters under glass : a cultural history of hothouse flowers from 1850 to the present / Jane Desmarais.
"Monsters under Glass explores our enduring fascination with hothouses and exotic blooms, from their rise in ancient times, through the Victorian vogue for plant collecting, to the present day. Our interest in hothouses can be traced back to the Roman emperor Tiberius, but it was in the early n...
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