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To: Michael.SF.
"Cucumber frames often turn up in 19th century children's stories, where boys were constantly in trouble for breaking the glass. They warmed the earth and extended the growing season, so were crucial to the supply of "Mediterranean" summer vegetables in Britain, before the age of horticultural polythene and container-loads of tomatoes crossing the English Channel."

http://www.oldandinteresting.com/victorian-garden-frames.aspx

15 posted on 05/19/2016 10:48:20 PM PDT by Neanderthal
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To: Neanderthal
Wesley Crusher was almost executed for that!
21 posted on 05/20/2016 4:32:01 AM PDT by Do_Tar (Sorry for the Star Trek (Next Gen) reference.)
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To: Neanderthal
"Cucumber frames often turn up in 19th century children's stories, where boys were constantly in trouble for breaking the glass. They warmed the earth

Today those boys would ne lauded as environmental heroes.

27 posted on 05/20/2016 7:33:25 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools - Solon, Lawmaker of Athens)
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