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Article: Escape from winter - Fruit and flowers bloom in Tower Hill's orangerie.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- January 9, 2000
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"For a fix of warmth and fragrance in mid-winter, there is nothing like an orangerie," said John Trexler, executive director of Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, as he strolled through the year-old orangerie there.
"The idea of a glasshouse - a protective structure where one can cultivate or propagate non-hardy plants in wintertime - is a couple of thousand years old," Trexler said. "The Romans built glasshouses in the cooler parts of their empire, where they could cultivate oleanders, lemons, pomegranates, bay trees, rosemary and other plants they favored."
Such enterprises suffered during the Dark Ages, but when Renaissance engineers applied ...